An interesting side-effect of powerful search engine spiders is an undesired indexing of hosted media files. Millions of servers that are live to the internet and Google's web-crawling - also have an abundance of "files to share".
Not to be confused with "file sharing" - however if you are fixin' to download, Google has made it extremely easy to locate whatever your heart desires.
Just type the following into Google's basic search box:
?intitle:index.of? mp3 "Artist, Song or Album Name"
For instance...
?intitle:index.of? mp3 "David Cross"
...will search out folders named mp3 for files containing David Cross. Within the first few pages of those Google results, there are several entries and links to complete mp3 files of David Cross comedy albums.
Keep in mind that the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) would consider this illegal-filesharing if one was to actually download any of these files. However without a Peer-to-Peer network monitoring traffic and IP addresses, and in-lieu of a record executive hovering over your shoulder as you click "Save to Disk" - I can't imagine how the RIAA would be able to track or monitor these types of downloads in any way.
Article was last edited on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 @ 4:26 PM
