Well, so that's it.....Napster got it in the cornhole. Judge Marilyn Something has ordered them to shut down by Friday, Pacific Time! So it's time to stock up and get the hell out, boys & girls! One last go-round for all! Get it all while you can, Everything Must Go, we're going the fuck out of business!!!!!! Yee-haw!!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew it would happen sooner or later. That piggish little imp Lars must have peed himself......I hope he loses all his money on the stock market or something, or gets lynched by an angry mob.....it'd be all over CNN. I'm gonna be hanging out on the hard rock server I guess, or that server that takes a while to get to by clicking on and off and then suddenly a bunch of people appear on your hotlist..... Go plunder & pillage each other's shit while you still can, THE WORLD IS ENDING! Of course, it really isn't - there's still Opennap and those cheapo ones where all the Nap people will flock...and supposedly Gnutella is good! I'm outta here..... Jack. http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3653#msg-3653Sat, 25 May 2013 16:27:30 +1000 Phorum 5.2.16 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3750#msg-3750 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3750#msg-3750
Clearly reeling from Judge Marilyn Hall Patel's blow against file-sharing service Napster, GlobalSCAPE decided to shut down its like-minded CuteMX service today.

"We believe this is the proper thing to do given the confusion over this technology in the market," President, Sandra Poole-Christal said. "While the legal issues are being resolved, we will continue to advance our real-time search technology to increase the amount of information available to consumers and make the Internet a bigger place."

Other file sharing software, including imesh and Scour's SX program, were still operating at press time.
]]> Rather Large Canine NoticeboardSat, 29 Jul 2000 03:36:40 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3749#msg-3749 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3749#msg-3749
The excuse that Napster should stay on as a promotional tool is kind of a weak, because most people by far want it because of the music they get for free instead of being nice to small bands. But even so, what Rammy mentions does happen, believe it or not.

I've encountered several people downloading stuff off me like some Bon Jovi or Def Lep B-sides, and when I start talking to them, finding out what their tastes are, I sometimes go, "Oh, you may want to check out these songs by a band called Harem Scarem, or these by Giant and so on....." and many times they see me again and thank me and ask for more recommendations, so it does happen. But the question is, will these new fans ever support the artist by buying anything? Who the hell knows.....depends on the person, I guess.

And yeah, this is just a temporary thing. Impish Lars doesn't, if I may say this like he would, like, motherfuckin realize that like, technology is like, a motherfuckin Hydra.

You can chop off heads and there will always be another and then they'll grow back. Technology is like a mutating virus, a fungus that crawls its way in through the sewage pipes if you don't let it in through the door. Even if they shut them all down: Scour, Gnutella, etc....it'll come back in a few years, but modified and even more bad-ass. The only way is to find some agreement you and the Hydra can live with together. Trying to kill it will only give you headaches.

Plus, you've got to remember this only applies to the US and affects Napster because it is an American company. So even if they banned all the programs like Napster, someone in a country with laxer laws with regards to copyright infringement could open one of these things up, and the internet being the global juggernaut it is, anyone would access it and the US government could do squat.

Cheers,
Jack.

]]> Jack NoticeboardSat, 29 Jul 2000 03:14:32 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3732#msg-3732 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3732#msg-3732
Surely something else could have been done. Maybe even a royalty system base on subscriptions!!!

Lars Ulrich is a prick! - I understand his concern but to shut Napster down is doing Music an injustice. It's OK for him he doesn't need any promotion or airplay - but newer up and coming acts will now suffer.

The best way to get Rock back is to give people a little taster and wait for the sugar rush to kick in!

Lars has just hidden the spoon.

Rammy.]]> Rammy NoticeboardFri, 28 Jul 2000 19:07:03 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3723#msg-3723 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3723#msg-3723>Date: 07-28-2000 00:31
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>I don't get it.....isn't IRC supposed to be a chat thing?


It's also great for filesharing!
Once you start, you can't stop! :)

Here's a couple of links to start you off:

http://www.crazyzebramusic.com/content/irc.htm
http://www.mp3-guides.com/guides/irc-2.shtml

Dokken
]]> Dokken NoticeboardFri, 28 Jul 2000 13:20:31 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3710#msg-3710 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3710#msg-3710
http://gnutella.wego.com/

is currently saying:

"Due to the unprecedented traffic volume following the Napster decision we had to take the servers offline temporarily to increase bandwidth and capacity. The www.gnutella.wego.com site will be up again in a few hours as soon as the necessary upgrades are completed. "

The rats are leaving the ship in mass :)

I also read the follow article by by Ben Charny, ZDNet News:
http://news.excite.com/news/zd/000727/14/musicians-fight-for

"But the record industry and some other MP3 company executives say the public had better get ready for a big disappointment when the record companies finally roll out their catalogs onto the Internet. Savings will be in the pennies, they said.

The cost of encryption to secure downloads is just one extra price to pay to offer music online. Then comes watermarking, content protection, distribution and merchant gateways before it reaches the listener.

Record companies will also have to spend large sums on cataloging, copyright tracking and distributing royalties to the artists, the executives said. "

I guess record companies are missing the point. It sounds like they are trying to make digital music as expensive as possible, for no apparent reason other to maintain status quo.

The future is digitally delivered music at minial cost and minimal infrastructure.

BD
]]> Rather Large Canine NoticeboardFri, 28 Jul 2000 08:16:40 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3694#msg-3694 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3694#msg-3694Enough to make a young man angry you'd think. Well at least Fred will have something to rant about eh!]]> Surfpunk NoticeboardFri, 28 Jul 2000 05:11:37 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3688#msg-3688 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3688#msg-3688http://www.spinfrenzy.com/

SpinFrezy looks alot like Scour at first glance.

Big Dog
]]> Rather Large Canine NoticeboardFri, 28 Jul 2000 03:30:41 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3683#msg-3683 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3683#msg-3683I don't get it.....isn't IRC supposed to be a chat thing? Does it have a search engine for MP3s, hotlists and so on?

At any rate, the 3 main options seem to be:

1. Scour at www.scour.com

2. Cute MX at www.globalscape.com/products/cutemx/

3. Gnutella at gnutella.wego.com

Any input on what the differences are between these and which might be the btter one?

Cheers!
Jack.]]> Jack NoticeboardFri, 28 Jul 2000 00:31:45 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3674#msg-3674 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3674#msg-3674I'm finding I can get just as much stuff using a program called Gnutella as with Napster... as as Gnutella is not a "Server" based program (as Napster is) - it's a virtual peer-to-peer network app - the laws pertaining to Napster don't affect it (yet anyway)

Cheers
Richard
]]> Richard Stewart NoticeboardThu, 27 Jul 2000 22:48:26 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3668#msg-3668 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3668#msg-3668It's much better anyway.

I've been hanging out on #MP3_metal and #Hardrock&metal,
does anybody know of any other good channels for getting
Hard Rock and AOR mp3's???

Dokken]]> Dokken NoticeboardThu, 27 Jul 2000 17:49:55 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3663#msg-3663 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3663#msg-3663
Kevin]]> Kevin NoticeboardThu, 27 Jul 2000 16:41:48 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3656#msg-3656 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3656#msg-3656
I'm going to go to www.scour.com.....Scour is supposedly a better alternative than Gnutella, works better......and many people are going to flock there after Napster goes down the drain.

Let's face it, there's no way in hell they're winning the case!

Cheers!
Jack.]]> Jack NoticeboardThu, 27 Jul 2000 13:08:34 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3655#msg-3655 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3655#msg-3655 Joe NoticeboardThu, 27 Jul 2000 12:53:23 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3653#msg-3653 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,3653,3653#msg-3653Well, so that's it.....Napster got it in the cornhole. Judge Marilyn Something has ordered them to shut down by Friday, Pacific Time!

So it's time to stock up and get the hell out, boys & girls! One last go-round for all!
Get it all while you can, Everything Must Go, we're going the fuck out of business!!!!!!

Yee-haw!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I knew it would happen sooner or later. That piggish little imp Lars must have peed himself......I hope he loses all his money on the stock market or something, or gets lynched by an angry mob.....it'd be all over CNN.

I'm gonna be hanging out on the hard rock server I guess, or that server that takes a while to get to by clicking on and off and then suddenly a bunch of people appear on your hotlist.....

Go plunder & pillage each other's shit while you still can, THE WORLD IS ENDING!

Of course, it really isn't - there's still Opennap and those cheapo ones where all the Nap people will flock...and supposedly Gnutella is good!

I'm outta here.....
Jack.


]]> Jack NoticeboardThu, 27 Jul 2000 12:17:39 +1000