LimeWire Alternative, Zune Pass and Not Apple iTunes

best alternative
use Frostwire :D

I'll look into it, but personally I like Amazon downloads, they're all mp3's, no copyright like itunes.

I THINK THIS IS ALL UNCAUSE FOR BECAUSE ALL MY IS GONE I CAN'T GET MY FILES OR ANYTHING.BUT AT THIS LIKE IT'S A DREAM SO THAT I DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT. WHAT I THINK IS THAT THE PEOPLE SHOULD DECIDE WETHER THEY KEEP IT OR NOT. I ALSO THINK LIMEWIRE CAN DO BETTER BECAUSE I TRUST THEM FOR SO LONG. BUT HEY GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This sucks!!

you know, i think it's a bit wrong to single out limewire for this. There are company's and software out there that will download an entire page, including song's, pictures, code, and many other things. Yet they are untouched by any of this? a bit odd right?

it is a real problem with this am a music producer and i use to get my music from lime wire is sad to hear what happened at court but it is also a good deal for musicians because they get to gain a little decent money

If you look at most musicians the majority of their money doesn't come from individual song or album sales it comes from their clothing line, cologne, jewelry, ect... and their tours and the last time I checked you can't get those things for free without stealing.

limewire was a great way for me to find out if I liked a song or artist. I then would purchace the artists CD

theft is theft. i left limewire for zune years ago. itunes is crap in comparison to zune. i am a passionate music lover and audiophile. start using zune with zunepass, the end user experience is amazing.

i only ever downloaded songs from Limewire if I had purchased them in the past in some other format (cd, cassette, lp, 8-track, etc). My conscience is clean.

Try Frostwire...better than Limewire was.

at 150 a year i get to keep 120 songs?! that 1.25 per song......I might as well take my chances with 99 cents......

you dont get it...you get to keep 1o songs a month, while also downloading unlimited music (you can keep them as long as your subscription lasts) the songs u download with the zune pass isnt yours to keep besides those 10 songs a month

just get MP3 Rocket

yesss (: so good.

By junkie is better anyways

This story leaves a LOT out. Keep in mind "limewire" is a peer-to-peer program. they arent HOSTING, or UPLOADING, or DOWNLOADING the material. its PEOPLE doing that. Dont forget all of the LEGAL stuff that is shared over Limewire. Looking at it like MOST of you are looking at it, would be like suing the Department of Transportation because people traffic drugs on its Highways, and Mapquest for helping them find the directions.

uhhhh if theyre offering unlimited downloads how is it that u only get to keep 10 songs a month?????

Use torrents. It is the same P2P as limewire, except there are several programs which can use them, and these have actually nothing to do with finding the files to download, because you have to download the .torrent files from elsewhere. This means that even if websites hosting torrents shut down, you could still use something like IRC to get them.

And for songs, download a youtube downloader with torrents and then rip the songs from youtube videos.

Limewire was a bit easier to use, but its advantages mean nothing if it is shut down.

i really do not like it at all think it all stinks cause the best program to download was limewire and limewire pro i loved it until they took it away when you dont have the cash to buy songs or movies you did have it with limewire i burn music cds for myself and movie dvds for my kids and now thats taken away dont have anything now

It sucks. The music industry makes plenty of MONEY with out Limewire. Keep the political * holes out of peoples business and this world would be a better place. Lime wire did no harm.

You know, old versions of limewire still work like normal.
This Zune thing is bs though. 10 songs a month is less than 1 album, and everything else stops working if I cancel my subscription? Screw that. Plus it's not like they're going to have the rare, out of print albums and demos from before a band was big. It's the same selection as in stores, and you'd get better quality and unrestricted rights by if you got the real thing anyway. If it's any good, I buy it, but I always try before I buy. Sadly, there's less and less worth buying over the last 10 years. If the music industry wants to revive itself, they need to quit suing their customers and start LISTENING to them. Quit trying to push a band to appeal to a wide audience, and just let them be themselves. It's better to have a smaller dedicated fanbase than millions of pseudo-fans who don't know half of the album tracks. We already pay $30 for a tshirt plus the concert ticket, either learn to embrace the free exposure that p2p brings, or else get out of the business. And good riddance.

what a load of bull s###e!!! u get to keep 10 songs a month for approx £80 a year come on you got to have a better olternative than that, Bear share will not reconise my mp3/mp4 player and I can't find another thats any good so is there any better ones you know of plz.

So... lets get this straight. P2P users were downloading - and keeping - everything, free of charge. iTunes users download - and keep - songs in a lossless format for between 69c and $1.19 an item. And MS's new Zune Pass allows users to download - but NOT keep - a ton, but to keep? 120 songs per year. Divide the annual fee by that and you're paying $1.17 per song.

Nice try, Microsoft, but something tells me you're not going to make a dent in Apple's armour this way. And let's not even start on the fact that, if it is a Microsoft run product, it's going to crash fifty times before anyone can install it.

As other users have said - FrostWire. Because Microsoft earn enough money for their * products as it is.

I think it works in reverse to, I searched for bands and downloaded their songs to see if i liked them. ive bought many cd's because of this.

so is this an article or an advertisement

frost wire works for me the music industry carges 80 to 150 dollers for a consert 20 dollers per cd come on there making there money and vuse works for me on movies bunch of bull money grubbing exatives

but how do people put their music from frostwire to itunes? cuz i cant anything

as a musician and producer i see where the ria is coming from but that is wrong to single p2p out. back in the day we would buy a tape go buy blank tapes and make copies to pass on to others in the family.everyone did that. now i hear people saying its theft well it is not theft when someone buys something and shares it with you thats called generosity. if i buy a loaf of bread and give some to my child is that theft? is he stealing from the bread company? if i buy a cd and rip it using WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER and give a copy to my wife is that theft? hell no. i used her money to buy it shes my wife. duh... people need to get a grip and quit with the bull. half the stuff the music industry puts out is crap anyway and most people dont want to buy it for that reason alone. now lime is gone and the industry is still broke and not making the money they want. so now what? when they bring an artist for a concert its lip synced no real performance like back in the day. most of them cant really sing anyway and their voices are tweaked in the studio to make them sound good. now that is theft having me pay $50 to see an artist that cant sing has no stage presence what so ever and is lip syncing to the music. oh and the music is bull too no real drummers no real instruments. look the courts should make the music industry give us most of our money back for all the crap music they have put out..... lets boycott the industry for not letting the talented people in to become real stars and for trying to sell us some knock off music off the clearance rack. can i get an amen?

PSSSSST...... its called www.frostwire.com lime wire alterntitive almost same thing. it is a torrent dler to

i paid for limewire and i can't use it and no refund on it!!?!!. i think it is a bunch of bull.