Audiogalaxy is history :(
The universe of unauthorized music file-sharing services is getting smaller.
The music industry said Monday it had reached an out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit filed in May against Audiogalaxy.com, one of the more popular descendents of the now-dormant Napster.
As part of the settlement, any future music-sharing system operated by Audiogalaxy.com will have to be a "filter-in" system, according to the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Music Publishers' Association, which filed the suit. For any music to become available on the system, the songwriter, music publisher and/or recording company must first give their consent, according to the RIAA and NMPA.
Audiogalaxy.com will also have to pay music publishers and the recording industry "a substantial sum," according to the plaintiffs, "based on Audiogalaxy's assets and interest in resolving this case quickly."
The settlement suggests, as it has in the case with Napster, that the long journey toward viable music-based businesses on the Internet will be making a lot of pit stops in courtrooms along the way.
from: <a href="http://www.thestreet.com/tech/georgemannes/10027706.html" target="_blank">http://www.thestreet.com/tech/georgemannes/10027706.html</a>
The music industry said Monday it had reached an out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit filed in May against Audiogalaxy.com, one of the more popular descendents of the now-dormant Napster.
As part of the settlement, any future music-sharing system operated by Audiogalaxy.com will have to be a "filter-in" system, according to the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Music Publishers' Association, which filed the suit. For any music to become available on the system, the songwriter, music publisher and/or recording company must first give their consent, according to the RIAA and NMPA.
Audiogalaxy.com will also have to pay music publishers and the recording industry "a substantial sum," according to the plaintiffs, "based on Audiogalaxy's assets and interest in resolving this case quickly."
The settlement suggests, as it has in the case with Napster, that the long journey toward viable music-based businesses on the Internet will be making a lot of pit stops in courtrooms along the way.
from: <a href="http://www.thestreet.com/tech/georgemannes/10027706.html" target="_blank">http://www.thestreet.com/tech/georgemannes/10027706.html</a>
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That said, how is the universe getting smaller when peer to peer programs are beginning to work efficiently? Take Limewire - will the music industry go after everybody that intslls Limewire?
As I understand it, there is no central server for these peer to peer systems, and hence no-one the music companies can target.
Or am I missing something?
David
Audiogalaxy always sucked, plus they've been filtering for a while.
Hopefully this and events like this will FORCE people to use peer to peer software. Argh, raise the jolly roger mateys!
haq th' plahnit.
<strong>I loved AG. You just can't find the music I like on the Gnutella network thingy. Really. AG always had what I wanted. Hopefully, they won't filter these smaller bands.
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As I understood the settlement, everything is unavailable until otherwise noted. So basically, to get your music "unblocked", you have to own that music and tell AG that it is ok for it to be shared.
I tried looking for some smaller time stuff... it was all blocked
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<strong>Yay! This is GREAT!
Audiogalaxy always sucked, plus they've been filtering for a while.
Hopefully this and events like this will FORCE people to use peer to peer software. Argh, raise the jolly roger mateys!</strong><hr></blockquote>
AudioGalaxy ro0led, you silly maclot.
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AudioGalaxy ro0led, you silly maclot.</strong><hr></blockquote>
agreed. worked very well for me
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AudioGalaxy ro0led, you silly maclot.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yep, it sure did.
<strong>Has anyone tried Madster's pay service? Is it worth it?</strong><hr></blockquote>
What's Madster?
Now it's down to Fern and Aquisition, though that's been sucking lately
What about that lousy iSwipe? Man, that one sucks.
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What's Madster?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Madster is an incarnation of Aimster. They charge for service, kinda like the AudioGalaxy gold sh!tz.
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Madster is an incarnation of Aimster. They charge for service, kinda like the AudioGalaxy gold sh!tz.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Oh, ok.
Speaking of Aimster, I used to love that too.
<strong>What about that lousy iSwipe? Man, that one sucks.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, iSwipe is pretty bad.