Ronaldo Rick asked:


The cost – or lack thereof – is easily one of the best things about free MP3 music downloads. The music files are all free, and even the software is available as a free download. Yet the system is not without its caveats. When you download MP3 music for free, you’re also exposed to certain risks that you’d best be prepared to face.

Intruder Alert

Internet security experts say that your PC is never truly safe as long as it’s on the Internet. The information superhighway is a convenient medium for hackers and other third parties to infiltrate your computer and do with it as they will. That’s a very serious concern, especially with P2P downloading where you’re connected for long stretches of time.

Anti-Spyware programs like Zone Alarm are a must-have before you first log into a P2P file sharing network. It’s also a good idea to fix up the security settings on the P2P client before going online. Beginners may want to use clients like BearShare that have very simple security options. It’s all about plugging up all the holes and keeping others out.

The Malware Menace

‘Bad’ software is another major problem when you regularly use P2P networks. Some of the music files there have viruses attached to them, and many harmful programs even pose as harmless music files. And once these programs release their payload into your system, they’re extremely difficult to weed out.

The best solution is to keep them from entering your computer in the first place. When searching for free MP3 music to download, be sure to check the file types before clicking on anything. Never download executables (EXE and MSI extensions, for example) because they’re most probably viruses or malware installers in disguise. BearShare comes in handy again here because of its virus-proof file format restrictions.

At the same time, pay attention to the file sizes of the items that you download. Music files are typically sized between 2MB and 6MB, capping off at 10MB for lengthy or extremely high-bitrate tracks. Anything outside that range will probably be harmful.

No matter how enjoyable it might be to grab all the MP3s you could see, safety should be the first and foremost concern. Few things are as troublesome as having to recover files and reinstall your OS, all because a virus managed to get into your PC.

        

Peter Nisbet asked:


easy to avoid illegal movie download problems: simply watch legal movie downloads. If you download copyright-protected movies using P2P file sharing services, you could face prosecution and a $150,000 fine.

Many people consider the chances of being caught so remote that they take the chance – that is their choice. However, why take the chance when there are legal movie download services also available online.

Many people wrongly believe that membership sites offer only peer to peer file sharing software, and that any other form of download is going to be expensive, involving paying for each individual movie. In fact that is wrong: while you are unlikely to get free movies in the public domain (that usually involves pre-1923!), there are membership sites that offer unlimited free legal downloads to members. Free in respect of their being no download after paying the initial membership fee.

There are completely legal movie downloads, every movie being licensed to download, and enabling you to avoid illegal download issues. The way they generally work is through large libraries of movie DVDs that can either be downloaded for viewing, or streamed direct from the server. Movies are updated as soon as the DVD comes on the market, in much the same way as P2P movies became available from members’ hard drives.

There is an alternative to this type of movie download: online hiring. You can hire DVDs online from companies such as Love Films without any time limit. Unlike normal offline DVD rentals, you will have no later return fees to pay, and can usually hire up to three or more videos at a time, these being exchanged on return using the free postal service.

This is far better than trying for a free illegal download, since such software often costs over £30 for a lifetime membership. OK, online DVD hire costs are round about £14 a month for 3 DVDs at a time, and lower for only 2, but that’s cheap compared to purchase costs, and you get unlimited downloads for that, limited only by the speed of the postal service. You could theoretically get 30 videos for that price.

There are not a great many online video rental companies in the USA, but there are some. However, back to legal and illegal downloads. Clickbank has removed a lot of P2P file sharing services from its Marketplace, but are still allowing others to trade. There must be a reason for this, and perhaps those still trading through Clickbank are not promoting the illegal side of P2P, since it is not the software that is illegal, but how some people use it to download copyright material.

You can use it for legal movie downloads of material that is free of copyright, or that is being licensed for downloading by people that want their work or their names to become more familiar to potential customers. The same is true of many legal music downloads using the same type of software: in many cases exactly the same software can be used to download music and movies.

Going back to the title, it is possible to avoid illegal downloads through a P2P link. You can either restrict your download to legal movies that are not protected by copyright, or you can download from a site offering movies licensed for downloading. You will be unlikely to get free downloads, unless you use the raw Gnutella open source software, and enhanced version of which is used by the commercial versions.

However, it is very inexpensive to pay a one-time membership fee and then download free from then on. They are free legal downloads in all but name, unless, as I have stressed, you download protected material. Video libraries, that offer licensed videos for download or streaming, is 100% legal, and the safest way to download movies.

It is easy, then, to avoid illegal download issues. All you do is to watch legal movie downloads, offered by several sites online for a relatively inexpensive membership fee. Your alternative is to use a monthly membership online rental firm, or simply to purchase your videos legally. The cost of illegal downloads can be high – if you are the one to be caught.

        

Ricky Lim asked:


There are several ways to download full length movies online. You no longer have to go to your local DVD store to buy or rent DVDS anymore. You can simply download full DVD movies online at the comfort of your own home with just a few clicks of the mouse.

One way to download full version movies is through P2P networks. P2P stands for peer to peer technology and it allows millions of users worldwide to share and download files. You can probably find thousands of movies files this way via P2P downloading software such as bittorrent or emule.

The problem with P2P networks is that they are not moderated and hence viruses and spyware are rampant on these networks. They are hackers who intentionally named their viruses and spyware after popular movie titles in order to trick users into downloading them.

Needless to say, it can cause a lot of damage to your computer and the worst scenario is that your confidential data can be stolen from your computer. Therefore, I would not recommend this method of downloading DVD movies.

Another option to download full length movies is use movie download services such as Amazon Unbox and CinemaNow. These sites allows you to download or rent DVD movies and TV shows online. However, it is more a pay per download basis and the cost is generally between $2.99 to $19.99 per movie depending on how new the movie or TV series is.

Although the movies are legitimate and free from viruses and spyware, it can cost a lot of money especially if you plan on downloading many DVD movies.

A better option for full length DVD movies download is to join a DVD download membership site. These full movie download sites allows you to download unlimited full length movies for a one time fee.

The movie files are free from viruses and spyware and there are thousands of movie files you can download. If you plan on downloading a lot of movies, then this option is the most cost effective.

        

Thomas asked:


Downloading music from the internet has never been easier and, due to its continued popularity, it is getting easier all the time. With this site, MP3 Download Net, there are now hidden costs and no additional fees to pay. It is not just limited to downloading music either. You can also download a movie onto your pc to watch at your leisure, download a video and even software.

1. What Is MP3 Download Net All About?

MP3 Download Net provides all the tools necessary to be able to download music or movie in the easiest way possible with their own software. Even, if you are a complete novice to downloading from the internet, MP3 Download Net makes it easy for you. MP3 Download Net considers itself to be the biggest MP3, Movie and Game collection currently online.

2. What Does The Entire MP3 Download Net Contain?

MP3 Download Net offers extremely fast downloads, with guaranteed no adware or spyware and guaranteed to be 100% free from viruses. Downloads are available 24/7. Once, you become a member you are entitled to unlimited downloads with no additional fees to pay at all – no matter how many downloads you obtain. MP3 Download Net is even compatible with AOL and can be downloaded onto any internet-ready pc, even using a standard dial-up connection.

There is a Guide to tell you what to do each step of the way and, if you are still stuck, you can email MP3 Download Net for further information and its Support Staff will respond as quickly as they can, usually within 72 hours.

3. Benefits and Advantages of Membership.

Amazingly, when you become a member of MP3 Download Net, you will have access to more than 6 million files. So, you are pretty much guaranteed to find the file you are looking for. There are even a limited number of downloads suitable for Macs.

Once, you have taken out a membership to the MP3 Download Net site, everything you get from MP3 Download Net is free. Included in your membership to MP3 Download Net are free copies of most of the main media players, such as Windows Media Player. Once, you pay your membership fee to MP3 Download Net, you gain instant access to its website and its immense collection for you to download at your convenience.

        

Muna wa Wanjiru asked:


Most people who have been using the Internet for a while have already heard of different file-sharing venues and peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading sites where you can get virtually any MP3 or audio file that you want. The fact that these music downloads are available is pretty common knowledge. What is perhaps less commonly known, however, is the fact that you can also find a significant number of TV shows online as well.

Downloading television programs is basically the same as downloading other kinds of files. You first need to find a website that contains links to TV shows online, and then you have to make sure that you have some kind of file-sharing client that will allow you to access the files (often called “torrents” after the name of one of the most popular clients out there). Television program files contain both audio and video components, so they are much larger than music files. As a result, it can often take several hours to download a single file.

There are a couple of different ways you can watch the files you’ve downloaded. First, the most common way to watch TV shows online is to simply view the downloaded file in a media player. You probably already have a media player on your computer; if you don’t, there are several different ones that are available for free. You just have to run a search and choose the one that you think will suit you the best. You’ll also have to download the appropriate codecs so that you can both see the video and hear the audio of the television program files. Again, a few minutes spent with your favorite search engine can point you in the right direction as far as codecs go.

If you’re a bit more comfortable around your computer and know what you’re doing, there’s another way to watch TV shows online. You can actually burn the MPEG file to a CD-ROM (thus creating a VCD), which you can then watch on your regular DVD player. You should be aware that this extra step takes much longer and that not all DVD players are capable of handling VCDs. But the end result is definitely worth it, so give VCDs a shot.

Even though most television programs are available for free to anyone who owns a TV set, it’s also helpful to know where you can find TV shows online. That way, you’ll know exactly where to go if you happen to miss an episode of your favorite program or if you suddenly find yourself in a position where you don’t have access to regular television options.

        

Robert Edmonds asked:


Download Free Games Online- What are Free Games Download Websites

Download free games sites are found in their thousands online. These are websites that have designed a way that you can download the latest and cool PSP games for you. The free download games websites in most cases offer millions of games for all the versions of video players out there.

Most of the free PSP games download websites also offer a wide selection of other downloads including mp3 music downloads for I-pods, TV shows download, free Movie downloads online and a host of many other cool downloads.

The types of services offered by these download free games websites is however different. Some websites are just fakes that actually don’t offer any download free games. There are different types of websites that you can get to download PSP games online as below:

Download Free Games Online- Type # 1

The first types of websites that claim to offer free services to download games for PSP actually don’t offer anything free. These websites claim to give you free games download but that’s a direct lie. What these websites do is to offer you afew B.S downloads of PSP games that are outdated.

Most of the PSP games they offer for free download are actually those that you can get from any half %#$ss website for free. These type of online games websites only use these download free games to entice you to their paid game downloads.

Their intention is to trick you if you are new to games download or don’t have a clue to what is new or old in the world of PSP games. Once the poor souls have downloaded and played the ancient versions of these token online free PSP games, they will be sure to come back bags full of dollars to buy the more latest versions of PSP games from the same website. These download free games online websites are a pure con.

Download Free Games Online- Type # 2

The second type of download free games websites online, are those that offer a tiered form of membership. These websites actually don’t offer you any free download for PSP game before you become a member.

Their game download membership is divided in such a way that the cheapest membership gets the least attractive PSP games to download. The lowest and cheapest membership to the site is somewhere from $20-40 per year or once in a lifetime. Once you have joined as a member, you will be directed to page to download free games online to your PSP, Nintendo, Wii or Xbox 360.

Some of these download free games websites restrict your membership by offering you some of the not-so-much-cool games to download at the first level of membership. Other types of these group of download free game sites restrict your membership by limiting the number of games you can download in given period of time usually a per week or month.

They will say something like ‘this level of membership will allow you only XYZ number of download free games per ABC period’.

These websites may have three or more levels of memberships and each level mean you pay more to get more games to download. The highest level of annual or one time membership may cost anywhere from $50-80 per year.

These download free games websites are ok apart from the fact that, when you join at the lower levels, they will hassle you with ‘upgrade membership’ emails until you either concede or withdraw altogether.

Download Free Games Online- Type # 3

The third type of download free PSP games websites is those that offer you a standard membership with unlimited downloads. These are by far your best option if you are looking to get unlimited, unrestricted cool game downloads online. For a small annual, monthly or life-time membership, you are entitled to limitless free PSP games download.

Some of the best websites in this category charge anywhere between $20-40 per year. This cost is in most cases far much lower than what you get with the other 2 types of download free games websites.

In addition some of the best download free games sites in this class offer other services like movie downloads, TV shows downloads, mp3 music downloads for i-pods and much more. One of these websites that I tried a while ago has over 800 million different PSP games for free download.

Once you have paid the annual membership fee, you don’t have to pay a dime for any game download online ever.

All other downloads are for absolutely free for you as a member. The best thing with these type of websites Is that they don’t have a structured membership either, so you don’t feel left out because you didn’t pay more.

Start your downloads here: Unlimited games/movies download

        

Dakota Downloads asked:


I have been running shareware download sites in one form or another for over 3 years and during that time I have become intimately familiar with many of the various shareware affiliate programs out there. Also in those 3 years I have also been able to formulate an opinion related to most of these programs and some, by no means all, of the vendors that choose to “participate” in these programs.

Out of the big 3 or 4 programs out there, RegNow, Share-It!, Plimus, and to a lesser extent eSellerate and RegSoft, only one really has a program in place to help affiliates make the most out of the program. That affiliate program is RegNow with their certification program. This program was put in place to help affiliates identify vendors that properly participate in the program by making it possible for affiliates to choose the vendors that use RegNow in a way that allows affiliates to earn commissions for their referrals.

Considering the fact that I have also used other affiliate programs like Commission Junction, Share-A-Sale and Clickbank, the question needs to be asked as to why any kind of certification program would even be necessary. With these programs and most other larger programs, a prospective vendor must provide a way for any of their affiliates to earn commissions for any referrals, if they don’t the affiliate program in question does not allow the vendor to join or stay in the program. In the case of shareware affiliate programs, this isn’t the case.

Even with RegNow’s certification program and in the case with just about all shareware affiliate programs, vendors are not required to, and a large number of them do not, participate in a way that ensures affiliates get credit for referring a sale.

Shareware affiliate programs do work differently than normal programs as they rely on prospective buyers first trying the product first before requiring them to purchase it. What this means is normally an affiliate will refer someone to download the trial version than rely on that visitor later buying the product. In almost all cases this requires that a cookie set when the user downloads the trial to be recalled later when the user returns to the vendor’s site to purchase the program. This is where the fatal flaw is in regards to shareware affiliate programs.

Why is this a problem? Cookies are the basis of most affiliate programs and other than the inherent flaw with cookies in general in regards to some people not allowing cookies to be set or those that regularly delete them, many vendors that participate in shareware affiliate programs choose not to use that program as their payment provider while others use that program along with other providers allowing the visitor to choose among several payment options. What this does is ensure that even with a cookie set, the referring affiliate has little if any chance of earning a commission for their efforts.

Now the question needs to be asked is why do affiliate programs allow this and why do many vendors choose to operate this way? In regards to the affiliate programs, vendors are their bread and butter, the more vendors they have the more opportunity they get to receive fees for their services. Whether or not an affiliate gets a commission or not does not figure into their bottom line as their money comes out of the vendors pocket, so as long as the vendor is happy, they are happy.

That leaves the participating vendors, why do they choose this route? As far as I can tell, there is pretty much only 2 reasons for them not providing an affiliate friendly program. The first would be ignorance, in theory I suppose a vendor could honestly not realize that they are making it impossible for their affiliates to earn a commission. They may not realize that the majority of affiliate commissions come from trial downloads that are later purchased versus a customer purchasing directly from buy links on an affiliate’s site.

The 2nd and far more sinister reason in my mind is that the vendors realize this but think they can get a larger number of sales by duping unsuspecting affiliates. Affiliates that do not know better spend their time and money doing the marketing for a vendor’s product and get nothing in return. They refer customers to the vendor’s site who then use other payment options outside of the affiliate program thus ensuring the vendor doesn’t have to pay the commission to the affiliate.

This tactic has been discussed at great length in the Regnow forum as well as other places and it still amazes me to hear some of the excuses brought forward by some of these vendors. One excuse relates to how these vendors feel that RegNow charges too much to process their payments so they must use other cheaper payment options and still others complain that they feel they shouldn’t have to pay affiliates because they don’t feel they earned a commission. They bring up the fact that many affiliates don’t do much to promote their product and hence shouldn’t be paid for this perceived lack of effort.

Now even looking at this from an affiliates point of view, I understand that many of us do not promote as heavily as we should, or as some vendors would like, but those that don’t will not last long anyway and as far as a vendor is concerned, why would you care? Even if an affiliate brings you nothing as far as sales, you are not losing anything as you only pay for sales, plus if an affiliate happens to bring you a sale, it is 1 more than you would have had.

New affiliates need to be aware of the pitfalls of shareware affiliate programs and if they choose not to spend the time and effort weeding out these vendors, they have no one to blame but themselves. In a perfect world, the affiliate programs would do this for you but that isn’t going to happen. And my question for vendors that join these programs and then choose not to properly participate, what is your excuse?

        

Muna wa Wanjiru asked:


Most people who have been using the Internet for a while have already heard of different file-sharing venues and peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading sites where you can get virtually any MP3 or audio file that you want. The fact that these music downloads are available is pretty common knowledge. What is perhaps less commonly known, however, is the fact that you can also find a significant number of TV shows online as well.

Downloading television programs is basically the same as downloading other kinds of files. You first need to find a website that contains links to TV shows online, and then you have to make sure that you have some kind of file-sharing client that will allow you to access the files (often called “torrents” after the name of one of the most popular clients out there). Television program files contain both audio and video components, so they are much larger than music files. As a result, it can often take several hours to download a single file.

There are a couple of different ways you can watch the files you’ve downloaded. First, the most common way to watch TV shows online is to simply view the downloaded file in a media player. You probably already have a media player on your computer; if you don’t, there are several different ones that are available for free. You just have to run a search and choose the one that you think will suit you the best. You’ll also have to download the appropriate codecs so that you can both see the video and hear the audio of the television program files. Again, a few minutes spent with your favorite search engine can point you in the right direction as far as codecs go.

If you’re a bit more comfortable around your computer and know what you’re doing, there’s another way to watch TV shows online. You can actually burn the MPEG file to a CD-ROM (thus creating a VCD), which you can then watch on your regular DVD player. You should be aware that this extra step takes much longer and that not all DVD players are capable of handling VCDs. But the end result is definitely worth it, so give VCDs a shot.

Even though most television programs are available for free to anyone who owns a TV set, it’s also helpful to know where you can find TV shows online. That way, you’ll know exactly where to go if you happen to miss an episode of your favorite program or if you suddenly find yourself in a position where you don’t have access to regular television options.

        

Peter Nisbet asked:


n now download free movies legally, without having to worry about copyright. There is no more need to download bootleg movies because there are sites available now where you can legally download movies from pre-approved video banks.

To many people, however, that will not be enough, because such video banks are by definition already on the market, and you are simply downloading videos that you have probable seen before. The same is true of renting videos. There are some great rental sites online, where for a monthly subscription you can borrow as many videos as you want, though generally only three at any one time.

So what’s the attraction on Bootleg movies and why do people not want to download free movies legally? Possibly the challenge: that “they won’t get me” syndrome. If so, then they are possibly right, because only a miniscule proportion of those downloading bootleg movies have actually been prosecuted. That is hardly a disincentive to download free movies illegally.

Another more obvious reason is that legal downloads have already been issued by the makers in video format, although it is possible to download relatively new movies at a price. However, probably the major reason for bootleg movies is that the file sharing software used to transfer them is not itself illegal. That has been established by decisions made by judges in the USA. What has been declared illegal is DVD copying systems, but that is not the problem.

Another reason why bootleg movies are so popular is that many do not believe it to be immoral. Illegal perhaps, but immoral, no. The bleating by spoiled artists and movie moguls about how much money they are losing is short of credibility when we read of the obscene sums of money being paid to prima donnas for just one movie. My dad worked a lot harder than they do and did not earn in his entire life what they earn for one movie.

I suppose I am the same, so don’t let them bleat to me about how much they are losing. They should try the real world for a few days – they wouldn’t survive! So no, the moral objection doesn’t wash with me, nor with the vast majority that download their movies using P2P file sharing software. However, that doesn’t make it legal, and we must have some laws protecting originators from their work being stolen.

So, if many of us don’t believe Joe Public should be prosecuted and incarcerated for downloading the odd movie now and again, and we don’t believe it immoral to do so but think it should be illegal, what is the answer? Simple!

Prosecute those that illegally download bootleg movies and sell them for profit – throw them in prison and shoot them if you want, and then figure out some way to charge for file sharing downloads made by the rest that simply want to watch the movie, but either can’t afford the high cinema prices these days, or live so far away from one that they are unable to see movies until they come on TV or video.

What is annoying is that these people with so much money do nothing but bleat because the kids are using new technology rather than develop their own technology to control P2P downloads or even protect their movies so it can’t be done. The same is true of music – there are plenty music tracks that can’t be shared so why are they not all protected that way? Afraid to spend part of their millions to do so?

Bootleg movies will continue as long as people can download them. There are bigger criminals in the world to chase after than high school kids and their moms, so why not get the Asians that are making a killing selling all their pirated and freely downloaded DVDs on eBay? We all know who they are, and all buy from them, or is it too much hard work. It’s easier to pick on some kids than Asian cartels who make their millions from it, isn’t it!

        

Kareechy Ken asked:


The music generation has changed. New heights are attained by music industry in the twenty first century. The introduction of mobiles, iPods, and numerous other music gadgets has breathed a new life into music industry. Today’s youth is in synch with new music trends and every other youth you will find carrying iPod! No wonder these are the people who keep searching for new music albums and DVDs to download on their iPods or mobiles, or on their home pc. Though the style of hearing music has changed, there is hardly any change in the taste of music and it remains evergreen since decades.

However, the problem this generation faces is about downloading their favorite music albums. Well, they need not venture through music galleries of their area like their elder music lovers. They get different genres of music at the click of the mouse. But still this youth faces problems with the authenticity of the music download sites. Many people complain that the music download takes hell of their time and they cannot devote that much time to fulfill their hobby of listening to music. Quite right, isn’t it?

Especially today many of us want to download full length DVDs or CDs which take really too long time from many sites. This is troublesome. What can we do to avoid time consuming music downloading websites?

Do research! Yes, doing quality research about various music download sites helps us achieve a good perspective of different features of the site and also its authenticity. The music download site reviews help a lot in this regard. Search for the reviews that are authentically written on different music download review sites. Here they also mention about -

1) the download speed

2) Price for download,

3) limit of access to the site,

4) Number of songs available

5) Compatibility with operating system

These things help you gain little knowledge about the site from where you will download your album.

What are the top cheap music download sites?

Obviously you are concerned about the downloading charges of the site. Many sites offer free download but the quality may be very poor if you opt for it. If you have already tried this, you know what I mean. But still, you do not want to spend hefty sum for downloading the album. Here are some top cheap music download sites that will help you realize your music dream-

1) Flickr: This is the topmost music download site that promises many things and keeps all those promises without fail. Here you will get unlimited download access with best music quality, fast download capacity, and reasonable price. You can opt for lifelong membership for as less as $29.4. Isn’t it wonderful to have all the features in so less money?

2) Music Platinum: Here too you will get unlimited download access with good quality of music, and reasonably fast download. For lifetime membership, you need to pay $34.95.

3) MP3 Download Net: this is also one of the premium music download sites where you get unlimited access and fast download for as low as $34.95(lifetime).

Now that you know how easy it is to download whole albums to your iPod or pc, your work is much easier. The music downloads require some research on your part to enable them uninterrupted. The cheap music download sites are plenty. Just beware of fraud sites and opt only for legitimate after thorough search.