ourTunes - Download all music shared from iTunes users

[Mr Bob]

I ran across this awesome program ([link deleted]) that lets you download music from people who are running iTunes.

You run the program (a .jar file), and then click search. It will browse for every user on your network, that has un-protected shared folders. By simply doing a search where I am here, I found around 25,000 songs from multiple hosts.

This is not a P2P application that allows you to trade songs and such. It is just something that lets you download songs from one iTunes user, to a non-iTunes user.

A future update will allow you to access password protected shared folders.

 

[kamper]

2 points:
-Almost everybody here hates desktop apps written in java. Just do a search on anything to do with azureus/bittorrent.
-It doesn't matter if it's not p2p, it's still a tool for making copies of songs that (in the majority of cases) you probably shouldn't. There's a reason why plain iTunes doesn't allow you to save songs that are shared.

 

[TerryMathews]

Originally posted by: kamper
-Almost everybody here hates desktop apps written in java. Just do a search on anything to do with azureus/bittorrent.

Yes, I know. The ignorance of people simply doesn't know any bounds these days. To me, the people who hate on Java are the same people who brag about the 6GHz PXII they got from Dell for $0.99.

 

[StevenYoo]

this is awesome

 

[Mr Bob]

"-Almost everybody here hates desktop apps written in java. Just do a search on anything to do with azureus/bittorrent. "
- And they can just miss out on this application. I could care less if someone doesn't like a program written in java, it is their loss.

"-It doesn't matter if it's not p2p, it's still a tool for making copies of songs that (in the majority of cases) you probably shouldn't. There's a reason why plain iTunes doesn't allow you to save songs that are shared."
- This is made for legal file shares, if you want to do something illegal with it, it is by your choice. iTunes does allow you to save shared songs, how else could this work?

"this is awesome"
- Especially when you are on a network at school. At any given time during the day, there are at least 20,000 shared songs. Of course, I only download the legal shared ones from friends who have already given me permission

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: Mr Bob
"-Almost everybody here hates desktop apps written in java. Just do a search on anything to do with azureus/bittorrent. "
- And they can just miss out on this application. I could care less if someone doesn't like a program written in java, it is their loss.

You care!

 

[Mr Bob]

Another thing.. If you live by a college/university, and you have a laptop >>>>> Most schools are now wireless, which means when you drive near a dorm, you will be able to pickup on their wireless connection. Thus, find a spot to park, open up OurTunes on your laptop, connect to the network (or multiple networks), begin your downloads, then come back later on and check the progress. Since you are downloading over the network, it takes just a few seconds per song.

A few days later you might end up with 28,379 files, 1,584 folders, and 87.8GB of space.

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: Mr Bob
"-Almost everybody here hates desktop apps written in java. Just do a search on anything to do with azureus/bittorrent. "
- And they can just miss out on this application. I could care less if someone doesn't like a program written in java, it is their loss.

"-It doesn't matter if it's not p2p, it's still a tool for making copies of songs that (in the majority of cases) you probably shouldn't. There's a reason why plain iTunes doesn't allow you to save songs that are shared."
- This is made for legal file shares, if you want to do something illegal with it, it is by your choice. iTunes does allow you to save shared songs, how else could this work?

"this is awesome"
- Especially when you are on a network at school. At any given time during the day, there are at least 20,000 shared songs. Of course, I only download the legal shared ones from friends who have already given me permission

iTunes does not allow you to save shared songs. You can stream music off of another computer, but the program itself does not alow the direct sharing of files. The program you are using is simply taping into shared network folders (most likely, haven't downloaded it). You are not engaging in legal file sharing if you make a copy of the music on another person's machine and download it on your machine for your personal use (unless of course, if you already own said music). Do what you want I suppose, but don't be under any preconceptions that taking their music via this method is somehow legal.

 

[essential]

I think most, at least I know mine, requires a student user/pass login before you can access the network at all, but if you can find an unprotected network, then that's cool.

 

[Mr Bob]

iTunes does not allow you to save shared songs. You can stream music off of another computer, but the program itself does not alow the direct sharing of files. The program you are using is simply taping into shared network folders (most likely, haven't downloaded it). You are not engaging in legal file sharing if you make a copy of the music on another person's machine and download it on your machine for your personal use (unless of course, if you already own said music). Do what you want I suppose, but don't be under any preconceptions that taking their music via this method is somehow legal.

- I never said that taking music you were not allowed to take is legal.

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: Mr Bob

iTunes does not allow you to save shared songs. You can stream music off of another computer, but the program itself does not alow the direct sharing of files. The program you are using is simply taping into shared network folders (most likely, haven't downloaded it). You are not engaging in legal file sharing if you make a copy of the music on another person's machine and download it on your machine for your personal use (unless of course, if you already own said music). Do what you want I suppose, but don't be under any preconceptions that taking their music via this method is somehow legal.

- I never said that taking music you were not allowed to take is legal.

Sorry, but you weren't exactly subtle when you posted:
"Especially when you are on a network at school. At any given time during the day, there are at least 20,000 shared songs. Of course, I only download the legal shared ones from friends who have already given me permission" with some cute little winks after it.
And of course you do realize that even if your friends give you permission to download their files that doesn't make it legal, right? By your logic, every single user of P2P software is giving their permission to share their files through their participation in the network, and thus they never do anything illegal....

edited: replaced 'sorry' with 'subtle' - little brain fart

 

[Mr Bob]

And of course you do realize that even if your friends give you permission to download their files that doesn't make it legal, right?

- lmao, there always has to be at least one per thread, eh. You can record an mp3 yourself, store it in your shared folder, and give permission to your friend to download it. That's legal. Re-read my post, never did I say "download songs from users who paid/downloaded them from iTunes, and are not allowed to share them"

It is simply a program that lets you access a shared folder of an iTunes user. Great for people wanting to legally share a song from one computer to another. If you want to use it for an illegal purpose, then that's your decision. Not all songs inside of the shared folder, are iTunes songs.

Sorry, but you weren't exactly sorry when you posted:

- I wasn't "sorry"? WTF? I had nothing to be "sorry" for.

Feel free to keep replying, I love wasting time of people like you. It gives me something to laugh about while I am studying for my test.

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: Mr Bob

And of course you do realize that even if your friends give you permission to download their files that doesn't make it legal, right?

- lmao, there always has to be at least one per thread, eh. You can record an mp3 yourself, store it in your shared folder, and give permission to your friend to download it. That's legal. Re-read my post, never did I say "download songs from users who paid/downloaded them from iTunes, and are not allowed to share them"

It is simply a program that lets you access a shared folder of an iTunes user. Great for people wanting to legally share a song from one computer to another. If you want to use it for an illegal purpose, then that's your decision. Not all songs inside of the shared folder, are iTunes songs.

Wow, you are a thick one. Unless that mp3 that you have recorded is some sort of homemade song, or happens to be an album that both of you own, your friend has absolutely NO legal right to download that song from you. Did you think that copyright law only applied to iTMS files or something?

So, let me reiterate this for you. The only legal uses of this software would be for songs you both already own, songs which have no copyright laws restricting them (e.g. homemade songs you put into the public domain under a creative commons type thing, songs which no longer have any copyright at all), or for some other non-song computer files that either have no copyrights or are owned by both of you.

Of course, why you would want this software for such limited uses is beyond me. That is of course unless you plan on using it for illegal purposes (personally I don't give a rats buttocks if this is your aim, just don't go into it with some notion that you've somehow found some loophole in copyright law).

 

[mdchesne]

raise of hands here...

who hasn't heard of ourtunes?

it's been around for years

old news

 

[Mr Bob]

Unless that mp3 that you have recorded is some sort of homemade song, or happens to be an album that both of you own, your friend has absolutely NO legal right to download that song from you.

- Hello genius! I said, and I will quote it for you just to make sure you read it: You can record an mp3 yourself, store it in your shared folder, and give permission to your friend to download it. That's legal.

Are you just here to tell us that downloading a song that you don't have a license to use, is illegal? WHOA, THANKS FOR POINTING THAT OUT!!!!

"who hasn't heard of ourtunes?"
- Not too many have, hopefully more will spread the word

 

[mdchesne]

Originally posted by: Mr Bob

"who hasn't heard of ourtunes?"
- Not too many have, hopefully more will spread the word

Shhhhhh!!!!! *looks around* THe RIAA! If they knew.. *looks around* Shh!!!!

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: Mr Bob

Unless that mp3 that you have recorded is some sort of homemade song, or happens to be an album that both of you own, your friend has absolutely NO legal right to download that song from you.

- Hello genius! I said, and I will quote it for you just to make sure you read it: You can record an mp3 yourself, store it in your shared folder, and give permission to your friend to download it. That's legal.

Are you just here to tell us that downloading a song that you don't have a license to use, is illegal? WHOA, THANKS FOR POINTING THAT OUT!!!!

"who hasn't heard of ourtunes?"
- Not too many have, hopefully more will spread the word

Hello genius, when you say record an mp3 yourself, for the vast majority of people that means that they will be ripping tracks and encoding them from commercial CDs. So, unless you happen to be in that tiny minority that is in the habit of making their own music and feel the need to share your entire iTunes library to distribute those few tracks to your friends, you're speaking directly of piracy. So please, tell me that those thousands of tracks on your LAN are all songs that were created by your friends, and they all gave you permission to download their intellectual property. Otherwise, you're simply an obnoxious thief with no knowledge of copyright law.

 

[Mr Bob]

Hello genius, when you say record an mp3 yourself, for the vast majority of people that means that they will be ripping tracks and encoding them from commercial CDs.

- LOL You think "record an mp3 yourself" means ripping a cd into mp3 format? LOL!!!!!!!!

Damn, if there was a comedy forum I think I would have to ask this thread be moved over to that forum.

sparkyclarky sounds like one of those guys on the freeway who sees the speed limit as 65, and keeps an eye on things, making sure he never goes over 65, but just to be safe, stays at 60. Ya know, the kind of people who take 5 minutes to accelerate to their speed.

 

[mdchesne]

Originally posted by: Mr Bob

Hello genius, when you say record an mp3 yourself, for the vast majority of people that means that they will be ripping tracks and encoding them from commercial CDs.

- LOL You think "record an mp3 yourself" means ripping a cd into mp3 format? LOL!!!!!!!!

Damn, if there was a comedy forum I think I would have to ask this thread be moved over to that forum.

unless i misread sparkyclarky's post segment thar, i must agree... that is not "ripping your own mp3s"

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: Mr Bob

Hello genius, when you say record an mp3 yourself, for the vast majority of people that means that they will be ripping tracks and encoding them from commercial CDs.

- LOL You think "record an mp3 yourself" means ripping a cd into mp3 format? LOL!!!!!!!!

Damn, if there was a comedy forum I think I would have to ask this thread be moved over to that forum.

sparkyclarky sounds like one of those guys on the freeway who sees the speed limit as 65, and keeps an eye on things, making sure he never goes over 65, but just to be safe, stays at 60. Ya know, the kind of people who take 5 minutes to accelerate to their speed.

As opposed to you, who have infringed or are planning to infringe copyrights on 20,000 songs?

Do you pay any money at all to artists, or do you steal 100% of your music?

 

[Mr Bob]

Do you pay any money at all to artists, or do you steal 100% of your music?

- I've paid quite a bit of money on CDs, as well as DVDs. I have over 70 cds that I paid for, which is quite a bit of music.

And as far as your comment about the linked post, nowhere did I say I have 20,000 illegal songs.

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: Mr Bob

Do you pay any money at all to artists, or do you steal 100% of your music?

- I've paid quite a bit of money on CDs, as well as DVDs. I have over 70 cds that I paid for, which is quite a bit of music.

And as far as your comment about the linked post, nowhere did I say I have 20,000 illegal songs.

Wow, a wopping 70CDs! That's probably under 1000 tracks, give or take a few hundred. And nope, nowhere in that other post did you explicitly say those 20,000 files were music. Except of course that a popular way of organizing a large collection of music files is artist/album/track number, track name. But those 20,000 files are something other than illegal music, right?

 

[Mr Bob]

"Wow, a wopping 70CDs! "
- Yeah, that is quite a bit. I actually have to store 2 cds per sleeve in my book.

"But those 20,000 files are something other than illegal music, right?"
- The 28,379 files? I wouldn't want to do anything illegal...

Not going to comment on those other replies lol?

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: Mr Bob
"Wow, a wopping 70CDs! "
- Yeah, that is quite a bit. I actually have to store 2 cds per sleeve in my book.

"But those 20,000 files are something other than illegal music, right?"
- The 28,379 files? I wouldn't want to do anything illegal...

Not going to comment on those other replies lol?

What other replies? Your asinine personal attacks that followed my exposure of your lack of copyright knowledge (or at the very least your complete disregard for copyright law)? No, I don't think I'll comment on that.

 

[Mr Bob]

"What other replies?"

You think "record an mp3 yourself" means ripping a cd into mp3 format?

You try to prove your point right, by bending things around, such as the quote above.

I'm done studying for now, I don't plan on wasting my time staying up for a good laugh at you. But tomorrow I have some more work to do around the same time, assuming the thread is still open. So if you have some more time to keep me entertained while I am working, that'd be great.