quoted 12 lines First off, EMusic sent out a letter to their subscribers a couple weeks>>First off, EMusic sent out a letter to their subscribers a couple weeks
>>ago giving their position on this and explaining what would happen. >Even
>>if this was not sent out, you are breaking the law. How can you
>>get angry about the fact that you are no longer allowed to use a
>>service for illegal means (violating copyright laws).
>
>i received this email from emusic. right after i read it, i went into the
>napster preferences and unshared my entire emusic folder. napster, being
>the unreliable program that it is, continued to share this folder after i
>had made the proper changes the the prefrences to unshare it. i noticed
>this a few days later when people were downloading files from my emusic
>directory. so i went back into the preferences and repeated the process.
i
quoted 8 lines checked again later and my emusic folder was still available. this went on>checked again later and my emusic folder was still available. this went on
>and i finally gave up. about a week ago i received the warning window on
>napster. so i decided to try unsharing the folder again, even though each
>time i had done it in the past, it had failed. i tried unsharing each
>emusic subdirectory individually. this worked somewhat. but only some of
>the directories were successfully unshared each time i did this. they
>lessened and lessened, and finally my entire emusic folder was completely
>unavailable to any napster user. this final occurence took place just a
few
quoted 3 lines hours after i received the warning window. (btw, the warning window gives>hours after i received the warning window. (btw, the warning window gives
>you 24 hours to comply before you are banned.) so why was i banned?
>because i complied with the warning? i'm pissed because i complied with
the
quoted 2 lines rules and i was still fucked. i tried doing all the unban debug and it>rules and i was still fucked. i tried doing all the unban debug and it
>worked, but apparently napster is not allowing any new users. not sure
why,
quoted 1 line but when i tried to make a new user name, i got a window that said>but when i tried to make a new user name, i got a window that said
something
quoted 3 lines like, "sorry, napster is not accepting new users as of now." funny, some>like, "sorry, napster is not accepting new users as of now." funny, some
>big shit might be going down. anyone know? but no worries, i just used an
>older napster username that i thankfully remembered. and btw, i don't
abuse
quoted 2 lines napster like so many do. i use it as a means of previewing music (cuz i'm>napster like so many do. i use it as a means of previewing music (cuz i'm
>not satisfied with 15-second samples). and if i like a record or song,
i'll
quoted 1 line buy it. if i don't, then i'll delete it. oh well.>buy it. if i don't, then i'll delete it. oh well.
I had something similar happen a few months ago, and what I ended up having
to do was create an entirely new folder and move the files into that so they
wouldn't be shared. God bless Napster and its quirkiness.
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