RIP audiogalaxy
Well, I am a little slow on the uptake, here, but it turns out that audiogalaxy is, in effect, dead.
They have reached a settlement with the RIAA, detailed here. It basically makes any song undownloadable via audiogalaxy without the expressed consent of the artist.
However, on a rather funny note: People are starting to rot13 filenames to bypass the restrictions. Try searching for “ZRgNYYVPN” (”metallica” rot13ed) on audiogalaxy.
I am quite disappointed, though, as audiogalaxy was one of the first instances of P2P sharing that I actually thought was engineered smartly: a web interface for searching and queuing to a small, non-resource-intensive application to do the actual transfers.
Anyone have any suggestions for a suitable (or better?) replacement?
I also found an interesting article on kuro5hin.org written by an ex-employee of audiogalaxy.
Interesting, but no revelations of what is to come (if anything).
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/21/171321/675
yeah i’ve got a suggestion… HOW ABOUT ACTUALLY PURCHASING THE COMPACT DISCS YOU GODDAMN THIEF DO YOU REALLY WANT LARS ULRICH TO STARVE?!?!?!?!
–sean
It seems that you have mistaken “advancements in technology” for “freedom to steal”. Why not just go buy the cd’s as most people do, and as you should do, rather than bitch that someone isn’t giving you free wireless technology, BMW’s and cd’s. Jeez