“Ares descargar musica”–you may have seen this phrase in relation to the Ares P2P network. That’s because it’s very popular in the Spanish-speaking world, just as it is in the English-speaking world. With 30 million users across the globe, it is the world’s largest file sharing network.
This has great advantages for the lover of world music. “Ares descargar musica” means that you can find Tango, Bossa Nova, and Brazilian Jazz–pretty much any kind of Latin American music you can want! There are more than 100 million files in the open-source peer-to-peer network, with new ones added every day.
But that’s not all you can find on Ares. You can also find belly dancing music, Middle-Eastern Qawwali singing (think of the soundtrack to Dead Man Walking), and good old fashion (sort of) American rock ‘n’ roll.
Ares doesn’t just focus on music, however. You can find a wide variety of videos, video games, and open source shareware and freeware as well.
Moreover, even though there are 100 million files on board, you may not find what you want. That’s why the network has its own instant messenger and chat rooms, as well. Just ask around a little bit and you’re bound to find someone who has what you want. All you have to do is look around and ask.
(This is one of the unique things about the network. It’s not just a place to swap music, video games, and software. It’s a place to connect. It doesn’t matter if you’re a fan of a local band, an obscure genre of music, student films, or open-source software. Someone else on the network is bound to share your interests, and you’ll likely have a good time getting to know each other.)
So, if you’re into Latin music, Ares has a lot to offer. And if you’re from anywhere in the Spanish-speaking parts of the globe, the network has a lot to offer in your native language. You can download that software and “Ares descargar musica!”
When music is an important part of your life, you will want to know that you will be able to locate and receive what you are looking for. With the largest network of users, Ares will astound you with the amount of files that are there for your choosing. You will have over 100 million titles available to you. If you know a lot about file sharing, then you realize how impressive this number is. If this sounds good to you, then you will want to get on the Ares bandwagon today and begin taking advantage of everything that this great file sharing software has to offer you.
Cuando la musica es una parte importante de su vida, usted querrá saber que usted será capaz de localizar y recibir lo que usted está buscando. Con la mayor red de usuarios, Ares se sorprenderá con la cantidad de archivos que existen para su elección. Usted tendrá más de 100 millones de títulos disponibles para usted. Si usted sabe mucho sobre el uso compartido de archivos, entonces te das cuenta de cómo este número es impresionante. Si esto suena bien a usted, entonces usted tendrá que subir al carro Ares hoy y comience a tomar ventaja de todo lo que este gran software de uso compartido de archivos que tiene que ofrecer.
I spend most of my day making websites. I program the code, I design the graphics and I write the text. As are most techno-minded people, I’m an avid file sharer and I use P2P file sharing software – like Ares Vista – on a fairly regular basis. I am pretty confident that I know what I’m doing with it. I tell you this not to boast, but rather to hopefully demonstrate that I know a thing or two about what makes a good website. And I know that OfficialAres.com is a really good website.
Everyone who uses Ares Vista a lot knows that it is essential to take a look at the new versions of Ares Vista – and indeed download Ares Vista – on a regular basis. This is where OfficialAres.com really comes into its own: for anyone looking to download Ares Vista or even find out more information before they even consider going to download Ares Vista, this is the place to read all about it.
The reviews are, for me, the gem of the site; these are reviews that are kept up to date with the various versions of Ares Vista available across the ‘net. Before I download Ares Vista I always check here to make sure that I am in fact getting the right version for my needs.
Dean Garfield works as a ‘hit man’ for the Motion Picture Associate of America (MPAA), the Hollywood enforcement group responsible for monitoring and preventing misuse of copyrighted material.
In an interview Garfield told reporters that his aversion to new technology – specifically technology that assists in the recording and distributing of Hollywood material – is not based on paranoia of that technology, but rather a mistrust of the people that are going to be using it:
If you look at the list of movies that have broken new ground, from Star Wars to Polar Express, nobody would look at those movies and suggest that our industry is afraid of technology. The truth is quite the opposite.
His job is to find ways to limit the copying and distribution of the feature films and ‘help the film industry not to end up like the music industry’. The music industry, Garfield reckons, is losing the battle against ‘piracy’. Movie and music downloads are blamed for fueling the opposition force. And he should know all about it: before joining the MPAA Garfield held the post of vice president of Legal Affairs for the RIAA. This wealth of experience means that Garfield is now known as the ‘face of copyright enforcement’.
Users of file sharing programs such as Ares sometimes fear to use the P2P file sharing to its full potential because of people like Garfield and organizations like the MPAA and RIAA. Whether this means they are wrong to use the software is an entirely different question, however.
The scare mongering and threats from the industry to its users shows no sign of abating.
Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos, quoted in a Playboy interview last year, scored a hit for proponents of the digital music downloads movement:
“I like the idea that, because of downloading, people are going to buy songs only if they are good,”
he continued:
“I think that’s a positive thing. It means lazy bands aren’t going to get away with giving you one hit single and an album full of filler. We like the idea that every song should stand up in its own right so you don’t have to listen to a song in the context of an album to understand it.”
The band, from Glasgow, Scotland, is encouraging fans to illegally download its latest recording, say Aversion.
“Franz isn’t too keen on greasing the wheels of capitalism [sic], and encourages fans to pirate the song from peer-to-peer networks,”
Colombia Records were incensed in 2000 when The Offspring tried to make its record ‘Conspiracy of One’ a 100% free download.
It’s truly interesting how differently producers, record companies and artists see differently on the subject of free downloads and ‘pirated’ music – those that make the music just want to get it out and heard, while those just in it for the money can’t seem to understand this position. It’s a natural effect of a capitalist market, true, but nonetheless it does stink of record companies and corporations inability to accept that downloads (free, pirated, or otherwise) are here to stay.
A man in Sydney has been asked to appear at a Sydney court in October: he is accused of recording the entire “The Simpsons” movie on his telephone and uploading to the a number of P2P sites such as Ares. His home was raided recently by police after the upload was tracked to his home. The likely punishment or charges have not yet been made public.Twentieth Century Fox (News Corp), Australian police, and the Australian Federation Against Copyright (AFACT) have acted together to locate and presumably charge the culprit with the strictest available punishment.
The copy of the movie was, the MPAA said, the first illegal copy on the internet – it was recorded on a cell phone in a Sydney movie theater on July 26 – before its public release to most of the world.
The recording was placed online quickly, but AFACT had quickly tracked it, as Adrianne Pecotic explained:
“Within 72 hours of making and uploading this unauthorized recording, AFACT had tracked it to other streaming sites and P2P (peer-to-peer) systems, where it had been illegally downloaded in excess of 110,000 times, and in all probability, copied and sold as a pirate DVD all over the world“.
We wonder whether the phrasing “illegally downloaded” infers that there was some illegal uploading occurring. Unlikely…
Illegally recording movies must really be getting easier: while in the past bulky recording equipment was needed inside the theater, now a simple cell phone will do the trick. Is it only a matter of time before theaters ban telephones, too? How else can they get around this?
The Pirate Party (or more formally the Pirate Party of the United States), a new ‘political’ organization, has taken steps to become an officially recognized political party. The group is currently gathering statements of support from at least 2000 registered voters in the state. It has until February 2008 to collect this support, which will form its first step in becoming registered as a political body.Ray Jenson, the interim Administrator for the Pirate Party of Utah, says:
“This is a big step forward for our party. Utah is a perfect place to start. With the right people, we actually stand a chance at turning around the civil liberties situation by working on issues such as legal P2P filesharing.”
Well why Utah? Andrew Norton, a spokesperson of the Pirate Party, responded to say
“We feel that Utah is an ideal state to begin registration of the Pirate Party as a political body, Utah has a strong history of political diversity, and technological progress. … voters in Utah are now one step closer to being able to voice their opinions on the key issues our party stands for.”
This is perhaps the ideal opportunity for like-minded people to join together and discuss issues that they actually care about – perhaps a world apart from the politics of modern-day America where main aim is to garner votes and play ‘Politik’ rather than dealing with important issues. This could mean the Pirate Party gaining more votes than could be expected from a similar independent party.
Will they succeed in making a difference? Probably not. But then that probably isn’t their aim; simply getting ‘on the map’ and showing that groups people supporting this kind of ‘different’ movement do exist. It is vitally important that political groups recognize the existence of significant minorities and give them a voice. Rebellion might not be the correct word, but it’s clear the people want a voice.
The largest U.S. Broadband Internet provider – AT&T – will begin to deploy anti-piracy technology that might be used to monitor its 13 million customers.
The ISP is deploying fiber optic cable to homes in the US, meaning the company can expand its offerings and provide customers with a cable service. While developing and marketing this service they’re working with the MPAA, Viacom and other content providers. They recently announced that they’ll also be monitoring users’ connections with new anti-piracy technology. Perhaps their associates matter more to them than their customer base? Who knows.
It is unclear to what extent the new anti-piracy technology will affect P2P file sharing and the like, nor to what extent it will effect existing customers (or if it will just effect those that take up the cable offering) but it’s another step from a well known company towards the side of the Big 4 Cartel and their lackeys.
No doubt AT&T have an excellent reason to install the anti-piracy measures, and perhaps it has nothing to do with pandering to the whims of the big companies that they’re now associated with, but it smells of another company being influenced by the might of the Cartel.
Naturally they’re welcome to take whatever steps they feel necessary to protect and further their business, and maybe battling against copyright violations is something that they really do need to do. At the end of the day, though, if its customers start to vote with their feet then the financial repercussions may come back to haunt them.
Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, based in France, has joined Britain’s EMI in selling music downloads that are not tightly protected by DRM. That leaves only Song BMG (based in Japan and Germany) and Warner Music (based in the US) to be using the outdated protection on their music downloads.“Universal Music Group said Thursday that it would begin selling current and back albums - from a collection of stars as diverse as 50 Cent, Maroon 5, Amy Winehouse and Johnny Cash - without anti-piracy software that restricts their use”
The Los Angeles Times chalks up Vivendi’s reversal as a way in which to “blunt Apple Inc.’s growing power by bypassing the iPod maker to sell thousands of songs in an unrestricted digital format through many other online music stores”.
Hmmm.
It’s clear that the big corporations are having very little success in the download sector – the ‘free’ competition being virtually insurmountable, with reasonably priced independent download services coming second – and it might just be that the corporations are finally becoming aware of the massive mistakes that they’ve made in the past. Overpriced over-protected formulaic downloads are evidently not the way forward; consumers realised (and acted on this) quite some time ago and it’s refreshing to finally see the corporations follow suit.
Recognizing that consumers have had a choice – and a rather favourable one, at that – in getting their music fix has taken the corporations a surprisingly long time. For organizations that boast massive marketing departments and huge consumer survey budgets, they’re obviously not utilizing their resources in the right way.
Now they may just be starting to recognized that their ‘customers’ aren’t the stupid ‘ cash cows’ that they thought they’d trained.
MediaDefender – an organisation purporting to assist copyright owners in protecting their identity and intellectual property rights online – has made an interesting new move into the industry of lies, corruption and entrapment.
Miivi.com – a website owned by MediaDefender – offered full movie downloads and the software to enable unwitting users to transfer them to their computers. This was nothing more than basic, probably illegal, attempted entrapment, with MediaDefender’s motives behind the scam are clearly to lure the sites’ visitors in and encourage them to do something illegal. Very naughty indeed.
The site has now been taken down.
MediaDefender is described as:
“… the acknowledged P2P industry expert, and has been called upon to testify in front of US Congress several times. MediaDefender has also partnered with law enforcement to crack down on internet child pornography rings.
We are not here to say that a crack down on such material is a bad thing – any attempt to stop it should be applauded – but using similar tactics on casual file sharers is arguably a step too far.
One cannot help to view this kind of action as double standards by those fighting the P2P file sharing community: they consistently tell us that their position is the morally righteous one, and that theirs is indisputably the moral high ground. This is clearly rubbish and the industry’s copyright ‘champions’ prove this time and time again by using every dirty trick in the book to attack and hurt P2P sharers.
sharers new to the scene, or those naïve enough to accept such trojan horses. The hardcore file sharers would have seen this coming a mile away and steered well clear. Arguably it should be those ’serious’ sharers that the industry’s ‘policing’ should be affecting; instead they’re going for the easy pray and with it political and media approval.
Sort out the industry, we say. Fight the right battles, do the right thing, then P2P will not be such a ‘problem’.
