Is it illegal to rip the free 96 bit stream at di.fm ?

Ripping itself isn't illegal.

so i have to be at home every thursday and i get my asot's.. cool..but not in good quality..well thats what i already have done since ukta doesn't share it anymore..

you just cant share it damn i missed 204 too and now will never hear it life is a bitch what can i say

Hello everyone, nOOb here saying hello. TT is also getting heat for sharing ASOT's. I think that the piratebay won't mind hosting the torrent. They don't seem to scared of legal threats.

What was illegal about sharing teh sets before now? Or is the radio station just complaining and threatening? It's a great pity.

Bascially, since the start of this year when ID-T dumped A State Of Trance, Armin signed a deal with The Radio Department to syndicate the show internationally. Digitally Imported came along and offered quite a bit of money to beat off competition from ETN and obtain exclusive online rights to broadcast the show. ASOT is also licenced to a few international radio stations.

Since TRD now own the rights to the show, they decided to put a stop to sites offering ASOT and other TRD shows such as John Digweed being downloaded and distributed for free, hence the reason why UKTA had to stop offering it as a weekly download.

Furthermore, the Armada website is now offering the chance for users to stream episodes of ASOT for a fee, which gives them access to the show before it is broadcasted on DI. Problem with that however is the highest stream is only 128K.

I think that until The Radio Department get their heads together and offer the original source files to download for a fee, people will still rip and distribute the shows while they still can.

hey ... try using some progams like odc or dc++ to find ASOT on the net ...

hey stop providing suggestions this topic has been discussed enough already
if ppl want it they can go and find their way but i dont think our own members should be providing info as we should respect industry rules

Sorry man....
The net is starting to suck!

relax fuzzion... i respect the industry rules.. not in some points but it's all the same to me, I couldn't care less

In 2 years you wont be able to download a single music file without paying for it!

doubtful as long as leaking sources remain within the industry

i am relaxed just sick of hearing about it

file sharing will never stop you can keep dreaming we could only wish

file sharing wont stop, maybe the ways it will be shared

legal

i believe that was already determined

Damn the internet! Getting all sophisticated and stuff! I think we should go back to 22.8 kbps modems and DL'ing Midi files.

ok djfuzzion ... ... don`t be ... be happy ...

always happy

There are those of us that remember what life was like pre-internet. I know it may seem a bit strange but we used to pay for pretty much all of our music. For the past couple of years most of the stuff has been available for free if you chose to download it but why should it be free? surely it's tantamount to stealing? We all like to get something for free and some get that smug self-satisfaction of knowing they've ripped someone off but there ain't such a thing as a free lunch, eventually we will all pay.

It's the same as with pictures, as a photographer I take steps to make sure my copyright is protected I don't see why others should benefit from my work for free isn't that the same for a musician?

When the time comes I will not begrudge paying for my music.



noops

96 bitrate would be bad quality

ya thats right i know... but correct me if i'm wrong.. i can't hear a big difference between the audioquality of the 96 asot's and the 196 here from ukta..

the fact that we were freely sharing a 192kbps version of A State of Trance breaks their copyright agreement