Why does it seem like everybody on the internet, when asked for a program to download music, suggest Limewire over anything else?
Limewire is a terrible product. It's riddled with bugs, is only barely stable on XP and hardly at all on Vista, and doesn't have built-in protection against viruses ridden files or scrambled songs.
I'm going to show you a pirates three greatest tools for obtaining free stuff. Follow along with me now.
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Downloading Music using Google
Tech Recipies
This is where you should always start. Read the article, scroll down, find the search string you need to use. If you can't figure out the first one (and I don't think you will if you're all using Limewire anyway) scroll down a little more, click the one with "Pearl Jam" in the name. It will open a new window to google with the search string already searched. Just replace Pearl Jam with whatever your favorite band or song is, and search again.
The results that pop up will usually be unsecured FTP websites. You click on the websites, and it will generally bring up a list of filenames. Find the filename(s) you want, click, download and enjoy.
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Torrents
Here are the two links you need to be a successful torrent downloader. BitLord is the first one. Follow this link, download the program, install it, and kick back to this second link. Torrentz.com is a website that catalogs the most popular torrent websites and searches all of them, giving you more results and a better chance of finding out what it is you want. Search, click, download the torrent, and it will open in BitLord and start downloading. If you don't exactly know what a torrent is, have a look right here.
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Ares. This is the final step. not Limewire. not KaZaA of any kind. not Napster, not Morpheus, not iTunes. You want Ares. It's a p2p program, just like Limewire, and it does include a torrent download function as well. But here are the top three reasons why Ares is a superior program to Limewire in terms of music downloads.
a) It doesn't eat up system resources, ever. Limewire does.
b) It has never yielded a virus or scrambled file. Limewire has both.
c) It's tested. I used Limewire years ago, and switched to Ares for a try. I've never looked back.
EJ Stryker Community Member 
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