No not another discussion of the ethics of it - sod the ethics I'm just going to do it.
I've never had file sharing software on my machine before as it's given me kind of security worries. However talking with a couple of you folks recently after I was trying to get hold of Rhythm and Sound livesets I now feel it's risk worth taking (I'm pretty good with backing my machine up) - if it's a risk at all? So before I leap lemming-like off this cliff does anyone have any last words of warning for me? Think I'm going for Soulseek since that's what I mostly hear about on here, so I guess that means it's best for 313 stuff - and hopefully for the wider musical world too? Anybody going to suggest there's a better alternative? If nobody does there are a one or two (=3) specific questions maybe somebody might be kind enough to give me a view on: Do people make 'donations'? Someone told me that this might occasionally be necessary. I gather from the Soulseek site that the version they have to download, 155, is newish, are people using this and is it stable? I also gather XP service pack 2 has given this software (and other P2P s/w also?) a headache (event ID4226 bla bla) which Soulseek recommend fixing with a patch from http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=4226patch/faq - which you should only use if you know what you're doing. Guess I'll find out whether I know what I'm doing when I do it. Has anyone come across this problem? And if so tried this fix? C'mon folks, confirm the view of those who, on hearing about a forum on Detroit techno, think "I bet they talk about loads of nerdy stuff on there".
