OT music downloading

[PA20Pilot]

Hi,

Sorry for the off topic here, but I know a at least a few of you know
what you're doing.

My daughter just took her computer back to school after I'd spent a good
deal of time untrashing the piles of crap she'd allowed to accumulate in
it while she was there last year. She's into downloading music and
managed to get all the spyware stuff associated with such places.

I formatted and reinstalled Win2000pro then I set her up with
cwshredder, spybot AdAware, BHOdemon, HijackThis, ProcessWatcher,
SpywareBlaster, and at least StartCop. The college is providing their
mandatory corporate edition of some anti virus so I'm thinking she's
good to go again.

Well anyway, she wrote tonight that she's again looking for software to
download music and asked me what to use. I'm not the least bit familiar
with what's good and what's not. She's had Blubster most recently but
the school pulled that plug out from under them, and iMesh and Napster
have had their own problems too.

What's something I can fairly safely put on her box that will do the job
and not try to take control from her again?

I also set her up with a second hard drive and Norton Ghost too, so I'm
thinking I'll be able to at least get her backed up before she gets too
committed.

I read something about EarthStation5 being a download/sharing program
that doesn't cost anything or attempt involuntary servitude. Might there
be others worth looking into?

Thanks folks!

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Jim Self
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[Hagrinas Mivali]

Hi,

Sorry for the off topic here, but I know a at least a few of you know
what you're doing.

My daughter just took her computer back to school after I'd spent a good
deal of time untrashing the piles of crap she'd allowed to accumulate in
it while she was there last year. She's into downloading music and
managed to get all the spyware stuff associated with such places.
[snip]

What's something I can fairly safely put on her box that will do the job
and not try to take control from her again?

One thing I can recommend is Furthur. It's there for legal file sharing
with the artists' permission. It won't have the variety of some of the
others, but many of those are for illegal trading anyway.

 

[PA20Pilot]

Hi Hagrinas,

Thanks!

I'm downloading Furthur right now for a checkout run. I'm not real
concerned with the legalities of the software and how the kids trade
music with it as the internet police don't have an office here in my
neighborhood, but the spamware and associated problems with most p2p
software is a real pain to deal with.

---==X={}=X==---


Jim Self
AVIATION ANIMATION, the internet's largest depository.
http://avanimation.avsupport.com

Your only internet source for spiral staircase plans.
http://jself.com/stair/Stair.htm

Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)
Technical Counselor

 

[Hagrinas Mivali]

Hi Hagrinas,

Thanks!

I'm downloading Furthur right now for a checkout run. I'm not real
concerned with the legalities of the software and how the kids trade
music with it as the internet police don't have an office here in my
neighborhood, but the spamware and associated problems with most p2p
software is a real pain to deal with.

The big concern is that with many of the packages out there, the default is
for your daughter to download to a directory that is available for anybody
else to upload from. Then the government can go after her for placing the
music on the Internet for others, even if she had no intent to do so. It can
become a serious problem. If the software didn't work that way, there would
be nobody to download from.

 

[PA20Pilot]

Hi again,

......the default is for your daughter to download to a directory that is
available for anybody else to upload from.........If the software didn't
work that way, there would be nobody to download from.

That's kind of what I was afraid of. When she was running Blubster or
one of the others she had installed it was set to not allow other users
to access her things.

I suggested she ask around the school to see what the rest of the folks
around there are using.

Thanks!

---==X={}=X==---


Jim Self
AVIATION ANIMATION, the internet's largest depository.
http://avanimation.avsupport.com

Your only internet source for spiral staircase plans.
http://jself.com/stair/Stair.htm

Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)
Technical Counselor