Downloading MP3s From AllOfMP3 for Free
by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
Tools Involved: None. Only two websites will be used.
O.K., we all know the major BS surrounding ALLOfMP3.com, MP3sparks.com, and their other sister sites, all of which are owned by the same Russian parent company.
They operate in Russia, out of the legal jurisdiction of the RIAA.
I could write a whole article on how the RIAA is lobbying the U.S. to try to require that the Russian government shut down these sites as a condition for entering the WTO. You can read about it on website sites like Slashdot, Techdirt, Digg, and other places. As of this writing, www.allofmp3.com still works. If it gets shut down, though, you can use the other websites in this article.
The Procedure
Back to free MP3s.
Since MP3sparks.com has not been shut down, we will use this website for our educational needs.
Open up Firefox, K-Meleon, Flock, or any other web browser and navigate to www.mp3sparks.com.
Click on "Sign up" in the top right-hand corner and proceed to fill out the information.
Be sure to leave the email address blank for now. You don't need to be honest with the information. Just remember what you typed for the username and password.
In another window or tab, go to www.10minutemail.com and get a 10-minute email address.
Copy that email address, and paste it into the email field on www.mp3sparks.com.
Once all the information has been filled in, click on the "Sign up" button at the bottom of the page. You will then see a message that says that your account has been created.
Now, go back to your www.10minutemail.com window and wait for the registration confirmation.
It should arrive within 20 seconds.
Click on the confirmation email, and you will see a confirmation URL. You cannot click on the URL, so instead you should copy and paste it into a browser window. You will see a message afterwards that says, "Registration has been successful. Welcome to Mp3Sparks.com!"
Find any song that you like and add it to your basket.
Once you do that, you will need to sign in with the username and password that you created. Click on the provided link to "My Basket" and wait a few moments for the song to encode. After it is done, download the song and enjoy.
The Secret
Every time you sign up with a different email address, MP3sparks will give you a credit of $0.20, which is good for one song.
Since we don't want to create an email account for every song we want to download, we instead use www.10minutemail.com to get a temporary, random email address with a click of the mouse.
It normally takes me five minutes to go through the entire process, so by the time you are finished downloading your song, you can just wait until your email expires or "self destructs" and then get a new email address that is good for another 10 minutes.
Then, sign up again for MP3sparks and get another account which is good for another song. Repeat as often as you want.
The parent company in Russia owns a number of websites and the technique described here works on all of them:
I hope you all enjoyed my first article for 2600. I'd like to mention that I have no hacking skills, only imagination.