Well, shit.
Oct. 21st, 2001 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skreidleAudioGalaxy has, in fact, gone down the toilet. There's a lot of this now:
SEARCH PROHIBITED You cannot request this song due to copyright restrictions. Please try a different search.
P.S. Oh, that can't be good, either. Kazaa/Morpheus have implemented a more centralized encryption routine, which a) could make them more susceptible to these same lawsuits everyone else is getting, and b) makes open-source accessibility to the network much more difficult, if not impossible.
SEARCH PROHIBITED You cannot request this song due to copyright restrictions. Please try a different search.P.S. Oh, that can't be good, either. Kazaa/Morpheus have implemented a more centralized encryption routine, which a) could make them more susceptible to these same lawsuits everyone else is getting, and b) makes open-source accessibility to the network much more difficult, if not impossible.
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Date: 2001-10-21 10:47 am (UTC)That, and I have to kill WebWasher if I want to use Morpheus/Kazaa, because they won't run otherwise..
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Still, I don't mind non-extensive searches or non-auto downloads, because (on average) I can d/l more at once than I ever could w/ AG, and I'm not a sticker for variety- if it's a full version and not distorted, I'll take it.
After all, it's true what they say- in life, you can get goods and services in three ways: fast, in good quality, and cheap. Pick two.
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Date: 2001-10-21 11:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-10-21 10:41 am (UTC)Kind of a shame, though it was bound to happen eventually.
Me, I'm *really* pissed off at the FastTrack people for deliberately disabling giFT. (http://gift.sourceforge.net/press_9_29_01.html)
's funny. Since getting MP3s became inconvenient, and I've had enough steady income to be able to afford it, I've actually been buying albums from artists that I like. What an idea.
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Date: 2001-10-21 10:51 am (UTC)Sucks about giFT, though.
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Date: 2001-10-21 10:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-10-21 10:48 am (UTC)I guess they just haven't learned that centralized servers just don't stand up in a court of law..
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Date: 2001-10-21 10:55 am (UTC)Goodness, but this sucks.
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Date: 2001-10-21 11:00 am (UTC)On a spyware note, I ran Ad-Aware the other day and while it did indeed find dozens of nasty bits running on my computer, I don't want to blithely remove them all for fear of disabling some of my programs--Kazaa, for instance, will die if you remove inappropriate portions of its spyware-ness.
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Date: 2001-10-21 11:09 am (UTC)I try to keep a clean ship. Sometimes it will hardly ever work, though.
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Date: 2001-10-21 02:19 pm (UTC)and I've used AG to download many an MP3.... what were you looking for that you got blocked out from?
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Date: 2001-10-21 02:24 pm (UTC)UI only really use AG for obscure things at the moment - the Goon Show, I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue, Spike Milligan, some Neil Gaiman. No music - i have 8G already. But it's a pity that I can't get the rest of those Eels (SoulJacker) mp3s I wanted (grr). I wanted to hear the stuff before the album came out.
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Date: 2001-10-21 05:05 pm (UTC)Re: Unrelated to anything
Date: 2001-10-21 05:08 pm (UTC)Re: Unrelated to anything
Date: 2001-10-21 05:20 pm (UTC)Re: Unrelated to anything
Date: 2001-10-21 09:43 pm (UTC)That's all, really.
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Date: 2001-10-21 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-10-21 05:04 pm (UTC)As for TMBG, what you want? I give you.
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Date: 2001-10-21 05:08 pm (UTC)