Audiogalaxy is history :(

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
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.



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  • Reply 1 of 24
    imac davidimac david Posts: 286member
    I've never used Audiogalaxy, so I don't know how they operate.



    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
  • Reply 2 of 24
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    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!
  • Reply 3 of 24
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Wow, what timing. I just started using AudioGalaxy a week ago.
  • Reply 4 of 24
    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    ag has suq'd pretty bad for a long time. the Gnutella network is so much better (LimeWire is on the gnutella network). hopefully, it will become bigger than stupid, proprietary kazaa/morpheus. /aside: why would any1 want to make a phre p2p client on a closed, proprietary protocol?/



    haq th' plahnit.
  • Reply 5 of 24
    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.



  • Reply 6 of 24
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    This sucks. I guess I'm just gunna have to use Limewire and KaZaA (well Neo for OS X).
  • Reply 7 of 24
    soopadrivesoopadrive Posts: 182member
    I haven't really been interested in downloading music by popular bands on AG, and still not as of today. I only use AG to find those not-so-popular titles, and it works great. RIAA can chase every last peer-to-peer program or server they want for all I care, they still won't eliminate file-sharing. One question remains in my mind: "Who's next?"
  • Reply 8 of 24
    [quote]Originally posted by speechgod:

    <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.

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    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

    <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 9 of 24
    [quote]Originally posted by Aquatik:

    <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.
  • Reply 10 of 24
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    [quote]Originally posted by Shanny:

    <strong>



    AudioGalaxy ro0led, you silly maclot.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    agreed. worked very well for me
  • Reply 11 of 24
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by Shanny:

    <strong>



    AudioGalaxy ro0led, you silly maclot.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yep, it sure did.
  • Reply 12 of 24
    Has anyone tried Madster's pay service? Is it worth it?
  • Reply 13 of 24
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by Shanny:

    <strong>Has anyone tried Madster's pay service? Is it worth it?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    What's Madster?
  • Reply 13 of 24
    tooltool Posts: 242member
    Damn..and I loved OpenAG and now it's gone I could get anything I wanted with it and it was the most dependable.



    Now it's down to Fern and Aquisition, though that's been sucking lately
  • Reply 15 of 24
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    Does anyone else here use Neo? I've been pretty impressed with it.
  • Reply 16 of 24
    tooltool Posts: 242member
    I have it...but didn't try it yet. I hope it works decent.



    What about that lousy iSwipe? Man, that one sucks.
  • Reply 17 of 24
    [quote]Originally posted by EmAn:

    <strong>



    What's Madster?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Madster is an incarnation of Aimster. They charge for service, kinda like the AudioGalaxy gold sh!tz.
  • Reply 18 of 24
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by Shanny:

    <strong>



    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.
  • Reply 19 of 24
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by TOOL:

    <strong>What about that lousy iSwipe? Man, that one sucks.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yeah, iSwipe is pretty bad.
  • Reply 20 of 24
    tooltool Posts: 242member
    What does Madster charge? I'm not too hip on paying for that kind of stuff....
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