January 22, 2008

Tricks & Shit: Download from eSnips

Can't download from eSnips anymore?
You must've heard about eSnips. If you haven't, go check it out at eSnips.com. eSnips is a social content-sharing site, where you can publish and share any media type. It's a "fun" place. ;)
Recently, however, there's been a change of policy. They've removed the download button thus limiting your options. This has been apparent in all audio files. This is because that there are users who want their files to be protected giving them copyrights over what is theirs. Another guess would be that either they've been warned or they want to avoid getting screwed. Part of the idea of their approach is to flash-inize the content. A similar approach to that of imeem.com and multiply.com (which also before allowed registered users to download content). We'll be seeing more of these social web hubs heading this way.
Anyway, going back to esnips, there is hole in their approach apparently (yay!) that gives us our downloading freedom back. Well, at least for now. You can either download this one application or just simply go a website that will give you your download link (to put it simply). I prefer the latter.
Here are your options:
1. Download and extract the esnipsDownloader.
2. Visit the eSnips Link Generator and generate your download link!
Now, if only there's some way to download stuff from imeem. I don't really care about multiply. I think they've eliminated most of stuff there anyway. Of course, correct me if I got that wrong there regarding Multiply.com.
For your viewing pleasure and more info on this nifty thing, visit the eSnips page where this file is being distributed. Oh yeah, by the way... if you're downloading music, careful of those fake uns or so-called cover versions. You might bleed yourself to deafness or worse, death.
Now... back to downloading. Have fun peeps!

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