User: shatter_34

Re:DRM

On: Apple Announces 25 Million Song Downloads

That said, I have heard from people that do use Kazaa and they say that they waste significant amounts of time finding a good source for the song they want

We all realize your time is extremely valuable. So I'm glad you took some of it to find out from other people what their Kazaa experiences were like. But maybe next time you can actually try out what you're critiquing first instead of making an uninformed remark and wasting OUR valuable time. While it's true that you can't find some of your more obscure songs on Kazaa, it's very easy to find popular stuff, which is what most people use it for most of the time. And not only do you not have to sit there while each song is downloading, but you can actually download your songs SIMULTANEOUSLY. In your earlier example, you were downloading 4 songs with each taking 20 minutes to download. It you're using a high-speed connection, it would be very uncommom to get a download that uses anywhere close to your maximum bandwidth, or even half of your maximum. So, in most cases, downloading those 4 songs won't take too much longer than about 25 minutes. Now in the case of your iTunes songs, which take 5 minutes apiece, they probably come alot closer to using your full bandwitdh, but I'll be generous and assume that 4 songs will take 5 minutes to download simultaneously. So already your "saving" of 1 hour for 4 songs is already down to 20 minutes. This savings, of course, only applies to someone like yourself who would find it necessary to sit on the edge of his seat staring at the screen while the entire song downloads. Also, if the people who you "heard from" are getting frustrated with unreliable sources, then I would suggest that for any file you are looking for, try downloading 3 or 4 versions at once. (Sure, this will slow some things down by a couple minutes, but that won't matter unless you're going to stare at the screen the whole time.) A couple of versions of the song will fail, and a couple will get through, and you can spend 20 seconds later on to weed out the bad ones. So my advice is to just relax, go do something else useful, and your songs will get there with Kazaa. The only time you waste is the extra 5 seconds that it takes to click a couple extra sources, and the 20 seconds to weed out the good file.