Winmx down?

[Mr Magoo]

Just curious but is winmx down at the moment for anyone else or am i just unlucky at the moment?

www.winmx.com

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That site which i use to download music.

Thanks for any replies.

 

[quiksilva]

WinMX and eDonkey: offline, doors closed
But gone for good?
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Published Thursday 22nd September 2005 05:42 GMT
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The "darknets" were looking a even darker today. WinMX spent the day offline and eDonkey has closed its New York office, Reuters reports. Both P2P file sharing networks WinMX and eDonkey are bearing the brunt of increased pressure on companies who encourage copyright infringement.

While the US Supreme Court's June Grokster ruling was widely misinterpreted in the popular inkies as signaling the death of P2P technology - it actually bounced the major issues back down to the lower courts - the Court nevertheless frowned on companies who encourage infringement.

"We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by the clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties," wrote Justice Souter.

Last week the RIAA sent seven letters to the networks, reportedly including BearShare, LimeWire and WinMX. WinMX was offline most of Wednesday, and Reuters also reports that eDonkey's New York office is closed.

Earlier in the week Mashboxx was said to be in talks to acquire Grokster and turn into a non-infringing, legal network. Mashboxx's Wayne Rosso was briefly President at Grokster.

It's clearly too early to say if eDonkey is a dead donkey. But with Mashboxx and "MSPs" gearing up to offer walled garden file sharing, and Ian "Freenet" Clarke promising new, untraceable P2P by the end of the year, the stage is set for the next act

 

[Roonaldo!]

Bah, I'm going to have to use a new one.

 

[choc_a_holic]

Winmx sucks. I just had to go back to it cause Limewire Pro was bad for the computer and whenever I go to d/l music from winmx it cannot even connect to the server.

 

[topdon]

Limewire is your friend!

 

[Im The Gun]

if this is true it's a sad day.
I've long used winmx because you can more 320kbs files.
Limewire and bittorrent are great, but for some reason they have less 320kbs

 

[Tigger]

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=925

 

[Borgsta]

if this is true it's a sad day.
I've long used winmx because you can more 320kbs files.
Limewire and bittorrent are great, but for some reason they have less 320kbs

I have a picture of me downloaded at 1000kb/s from Azureus.

 

[Roonaldo!]

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=925

HALLEJUYAH!

 

[Im The Gun]

I have a picture of me downloaded at 1000kb/s from Azureus.

I meant the quality of the mp3.
96kbs = very poor but good for voice
128kbs = poor, but great for voice
160kbs = good enough for listening to mp3s with headphones
192kbs = good for listening to music on smaller speakers
220kbs = good for listening to mucis on mid size speakers
320kbs = best, lossless rate, great for listening anywhere.

I've gotten some very high speed on bittorrent, limewire and winmx. did get a 50mb file in 3 minutes earlier .

 

[Akalon]

I meant the quality of the mp3.
96kbs = very poor but good for voice
128kbs = poor, but great for voice
160kbs = good enough for listening to mp3s with headphones
192kbs = good for listening to music on smaller speakers
220kbs = good for listening to mucis on mid size speakers
320kbs = best, lossless rate, great for listening anywhere.

I've gotten some very high speed on bittorrent, limewire and winmx. did get a 50mb file in 3 minutes earlier .

If you can aurally tell the difference between 192kbs and 320kbs I'll give you a medal.

By the way, if anyone is needing a new file sharing program Ares Lite works great and is easy to use. http://www.aresgalaxy.org/

 

[Im The Gun]

If you can aurally tell the difference between 192kbs and 320kbs I'll give you a medal.

By the way, if anyone is needing a new file sharing program Ares Lite works great and is easy to use. http://www.aresgalaxy.org/

if you listen to it a bit loud you can, the bass is deeper & the voices sound a little clearer.

 

[Bueller]

Geez, I haven't used winmx since about 2001.

 

[sante]

Download 'ARES' it downloads very fast and is better than Winmx

 

[year of the roo]

Ares is rubbish. LimeWire is great, especially if you get Pro.

 

[Akalon]

Ares is alright, you can find most songs and it's easy to use. I've tried to use Limewire in past (long ago) and could never manage to get it to connect.

I use DC++ myself, a little more elaborate than the regular file sharing program, but if you get the hang of it, you can find more files and download faster than torrents.

 

[goDees22]

Limewire is good as i searched for "pro" in limewire and downloaded limewire pro and it worked, you would think they would not allow ppl to share it but oh well it was heaps quicker 4 me