Who has downloaded off Blubster?

[sleepy_eyes56]

I have just started to download off Blubster.com and find it absoloutley fantastic!! It's fast, free and best of all its safe & legal. Also, there are no blank files like Kazaa. It's defintley teh best!!

www.blubster.com

[marmii]

Thanks for posting this... I think I might try it. It doesnt look like there's a catch or anything.

[GadgetGuru72]

Fast and free may be true, but I certainly doubt it's legal. It's just a new P2P program that claims to add anonymity. At it's core it seems no different than Kazaa.

[GadgetGuru72]

On second thought, I change my comment of "doubting it's legal" to "knowing it's definitely illegal." On their own website in the "press release" section is this statement:

" Madrid, SPAIN. June 30, 2003 - Optisoft S.L., provider of popular peer-to-peer program Blubster, today announced the launch of Blubster 2.5 in the wake of the latest litigious efforts by the RIAA and MPAA to erode consumer privacy and monopolize control of the P2P entertainment market. As Verizon has been handed a court decision forcing the company to reveal the identity of Internet subscribers accused of music piracy, Blubster has re-launched with a new secure, decentralized, self-assembling network that provides users with private, anonymous accounts."

They're admitting that they are no different than Kazaa and the other P2P programs, but in an attempt to thwart the RIAA they are trying to make it more anonymous.

Use it if you want to use it, but don't fool yourself into thinking it's legal.

[jhollington]

P2P services by themselves are not illegal. What you are likely to do with them is.

See the sticky thread (http://www.ipodlounge.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67861) at the top of this forum.