Artist Direct?
 

Recently when I've been trying to download things, I've found myself being taken to a website called Artist Direct a lot of times and was wondering if anyone knew why this might be?

For example, I've just tried to find the new Take That single, Patience. A search for it came up with 7578 results, so I tried to download the first result, with 99 in the # column, but instead of appearing in the download progress box, pressing the download button makes a internet window open for a Take That page on this Artist Direct thing. I try the next one, and the same things happen. Most of the results are titled in the same way, so I could tell they would mostly do the same thing (they were titled Patience _-_ Take That, which is unusual enough for me to have noticed it).

So any ideas what's going on?

Thanks :)

The latest LW version (4.12.6) has solved the redirection problem for most people!

A huge number of results like that is a big flashing "warning"...fake files:D
They're all over the network lately.
Search again. Vary your search terms, look for artist or album rather than song title. Try the All Types search. Stay away from files with heaps of sources. Go for a file with 10 sources or less, or those with a modem source.
Also have a look through the 2 links below for some more info:wink:

Info about fake files
How to find music

Yeah, the amount of results was a bit of a warning signal for me, as was them all having the same unusual title format, but I've had others that didn't have that many results, and until about a week ago I'd never heard of that happening. I'll download the new version tomorrow, time for bed now.

Thanks =)