Now, as I've noted generally Phree Musique USA is not about the duplication and distribution of music against the wishes of the creator, let alone the copyright holder. It's not that I am one of these people itching to advocate that it is very wrong and bad to download Usher MP3s for free or whatever. I did a lot of cassette taping of stuff like my siblings' 80s alternative and new wave vinyl as a lad, you know, and it doesn't seemed to have turned me into an utterly depraved degenerate or put Sony out of business. And neither, frankly, will G2P. There is nothing much to this little hack (I'm not denigrating it, I couldn't have figured this out, I'm just saying it is not in its operation hugely technical or anything). Basically whatever you enter as the search text, it creates a search string in google with the syntax intitle:index.of "mp3" +"ARTIST NAME" -htm -html -php -asp "Last Modified"
What happens when you enter a music artist or group's name is that you find many results where someone, somewhere is hosting MP3s by that artist. Who knows why, maybe it is for their personal enjoyment or some little project among friends, maybe it is authorized and legal though probably it is not. I worry a little that relatively harmless people, even by P2P standards, may get rather randomly hassled as a result of this sort of thing. Then again, if you make Madonna tracks available on the internet, it's kind of a buyer beware (or giver-away beware I guess) situation.
Scrivener downloaded...
Why nothing at all of course. That would be ILLEGAL Nonetheless, always remember to...
Practice download etiquette: Rather than just clicking on MP3 links, please right click + "save as" (Windows) or control+click and "Download Linked File" (Mac). It will reduce the artists' bandwidth demands!
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