Well, they really are notthe first ones to do this...
I programmed this for the Hip Hop Label "Royal Bunker" from Berlin more than six months ago: MP3, no DRM, 192 kBs. There are about 30 of their Albums online at present:
http://www.royalbunker.de/bezahltedownloads/ (german laguage)
I was their customer: The servers are serveral times a month not reachable at all (sometimes for days) because of internal network problems. This disastrous situation did not change within the last 6 Months. Worst thing of all: They earn money with that because they offer no free support, only a pay-line for EUR 1,86 per Min.
HTTrack is a free (libre/open source) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.
It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
we have currently a site hosted as ezpublishing, too. (http://www.royalbunker.de)
the "support" is a catastrophe. some problems we have, are not solved up to now. every small issues take days an weeks till they do anything about it. at the moment we are searching another host.
in fact, ezpublishing is ok if do not have any technical challenging issues. if you have only static html-pages and if you never contact their "support", they are ok.
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Well, they really are notthe first ones to do this... I programmed this for the Hip Hop Label "Royal Bunker" from Berlin more than six months ago: MP3, no DRM, 192 kBs. There are about 30 of their Albums online at present: http://www.royalbunker.de/bezahltedownloads/ (german laguage)
I was their customer: The servers are serveral times a month not reachable at all (sometimes for days) because of internal network problems. This disastrous situation did not change within the last 6 Months. Worst thing of all: They earn money with that because they offer no free support, only a pay-line for EUR 1,86 per Min.
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http://www.httrack.com
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HTTrack is a free (libre/open source) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.
It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
we have currently a site hosted as ezpublishing, too. (http://www.royalbunker.de)
the "support" is a catastrophe. some problems we have, are not solved up to now. every small issues take days an weeks till they do anything about it. at the moment we are searching another host.
in fact, ezpublishing is ok if do not have any technical challenging issues. if you have only static html-pages and if you never contact their "support", they are ok.