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horseshit. napster is now banning people who share emusic files. this is how it works: if you are caught sharing emusic files, you will receive a warning window on napster. it will tell you that you must have your emusic files unshared within 24 hours or you will be banned from the service. what sucks is, i DID unshare my files within 24 hours of the time i received that message. and i still got banned. yay! oh well, guess i won't be buying anymore idm records cuz i have no way of hearing them before hand. btw, my emusic subscription has been cancelled. no crisis, but quite sucky, char _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

btw, i forgot to mention that this isn't like you can just change your username and start anew. it's embeded in your registry (or they simply block your IP address). so it's really over. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Armchair Charlie wrote:

quoted 3 lines btw, i forgot to mention that this isn't like you can just change your

> btw, i forgot to mention that this isn't like you can just change your > username and start anew. it's embeded in your registry (or they simply > block your IP address). so it's really over.

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). Secondly, Napsters 'bad' is extremely easy to overcome. Look around on http://www.astalavista.com ---------- Jordan Koch http://www.digitalnoise.net "A zone contains the domain names that the domain within the same domain name contains, except for the domain names in delegated subdomains." 'DNS and Bind' by Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz, and Mike Loukides --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

how can it determine if its eMusic or not.. ive know nothing about emusic so do they like have special mp3 formats or something...? I don't dig... ________________________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ n a t e . s c h m o l d n e f e r i u . r e c o r d s w w w . n e f e r i u . c o m 4 0 3 . 2 6 5 . 2 6 2 3 -----Original Message----- From: Jordan Koch [mailto:kochj@digitalnoise.net] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 10:37 PM To: Armchair Charlie Cc: idm@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: [idm] i got banned from napster On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Armchair Charlie wrote:

quoted 3 lines btw, i forgot to mention that this isn't like you can just change your

> btw, i forgot to mention that this isn't like you can just change your > username and start anew. it's embeded in your registry (or they simply > block your IP address). so it's really over.

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). Secondly, Napsters 'bad' is extremely easy to overcome. Look around on http://www.astalavista.com ---------- Jordan Koch http://www.digitalnoise.net "A zone contains the domain names that the domain within the same domain name contains, except for the domain names in delegated subdomains." 'DNS and Bind' by Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz, and Mike Loukides --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Jordan Koch wrote:

quoted 14 lines On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Armchair Charlie wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Armchair Charlie wrote: > > > btw, i forgot to mention that this isn't like you can just change your > > username and start anew. it's embeded in your registry (or they simply > > block your IP address). so it's really over. > > 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). > > Secondly, Napsters 'bad' is extremely easy to overcome. Look around on > http://www.astalavista.com

SHIT. My bad, sorry, wrong list. I did not mean to come off as such an asshole, I thought this was a message from socal-raves. My bad. Whoops. ---------- Jordan Koch http://www.digitalnoise.net "A zone contains the domain names that the domain within the same domain name contains, except for the domain names in delegated subdomains." 'DNS and Bind' by Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz, and Mike Loukides --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

quoted 5 lines On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Armchair Charlie wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Armchair Charlie wrote: > > > btw, i forgot to mention that this isn't like you can just change your > > username and start anew. it's embeded in your registry (or they simply > > block your IP address). so it's really over.

There is a way to get yourself unbanned through the registry: http://david.weekly.org/code/napster-metallica.php3 You can also do a fresh install of windows to get rid of the registry entry. I don't think napster is banning IP's. If you have a non-static, dail-up IP it doesn't matter if they ban your IP because you get a new one everytime you log on. If you are on a cable connection you can often buy another IP for $6 a month or something or just use a free dial-up service to connect to napster --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

I believe there's a little tag within an mp3 saying whether or not it is 'copyrighted'. So perhaps there's some info embedded in the coding. I really don't know for sure though. If by chance all Napster is doing is reading the comment field, you could find a batch tag editor and remedy that pretty fast. Seems way too easy though, so I'm sure Napster is using a different method. Any ideas? I suppose if you're really set on sharing the files, you could convert to wave and back to mp3. No idea what effect this would have on quality, but I'd think that'd get rid of any embedded info. I'm sure we'll get some comments from those more versed in this than I. -Nathan

quoted 1 line how can it determine if its eMusic or not.. ive know nothing about emusic

> how can it determine if its eMusic or not.. ive know nothing about emusic

so

quoted 1 line do they like have special mp3 formats or something...? I don't dig...

> do they like have special mp3 formats or something...? I don't dig...

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At 05:52 8/12/00 +0000, "Armchair Charlie" <dubnovibrator@hotmail.com> wrote:

quoted 2 lines oh well, guess i won't be buying anymore idm records cuz i have no way of

>oh well, guess i won't be buying anymore idm records cuz i have no way of >hearing them before hand.

I've never seen Napster, and I buy heaps of music based on what I've heard of it online. "No way" is pretty over the top. Michael np. 'Dazzleships' - OMD -+- Involve Records http://involve.co.nz Jet Jaguar MP3s (latest upload Nov2000) http://mp3.com/jetjag/ -+- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Jordan Koch wrote:

quoted 5 lines On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, mantra wrote:

> > On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, mantra wrote: > > > how can it determine if its eMusic or not.. ive know nothing about emusic so > > do they like have special mp3 formats or something...? I don't dig...

Hi, kids. I'm a web programmer for EMusic. I've been reading and posting to this list for aa couple of months now. There's a lot of misunderstanding about what's happening with the Napster stuff. I'll try to clear a few things up. (Note - I'm not responsible for the concept or implementation of this policy, so please don't bombard me with flames. If you have constructive, or at least calm, criticism, please send it to service@emusic.com. Be polite - the poor people in the service department get plenty of unwarranted abuse already.) Here are some common misconceptions: 1) "EMusic is breaking into my computer! They're violating my privacy!" You've already violated your own privacy by allowing Napster to publish your songlist. The search program gets the same information off your computer as any other Napster user in the world. No more, no less. If you're concerned about the amount of information that's being published worldwide when you run Napster, talk to Napster. 2) "All you have to do to avoid getting caught is rename / remove ID3 tags from / re-encode your files." This won't work. The program uses an "audio signaturing" technology (developed by Relatable http://www.relatable.com ) to compare your files to the files in EMusic's catalog. The Relatable signature is based on the audio waveform (not the disk file) of the song in question, and allows fuzzy matching. Filename, ID3 tags or even which encoder or encode settings you used don't matter. 3) "I ripped those tracks from a CD I bought! They're not from EMusic at all!" EMusic doesn't care if you make MP3s from CDs, even if they're CDs by artists EMusic distributes. But when you start sharing them on Napster, you're distributing music for which EMusic has sole electronic distribution rights. EMusic has a responsibility to the artists and labels it represents to make a good faith effort to prevent unauthorized distribution of this music. Again, I am not responsible for these policies, so please don't scream at me. I am speaking as a private individual here, not as a representative of EMusic. Any factual errors in the above are my own damn fault. :) (Kevin returns to his cave, praying for the online distribution issue to get settled once and for all so that he doesn't have to keep paying import CD prices on IDM releases...) -- Kevin | "Philosophy, improperly applied, inevitably Murphy | leads to paralysis." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

quoted 5 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 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 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 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, but when i tried to make a new user name, i got a window that said something 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 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 buy it. if i don't, then i'll delete it. oh well. char _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

This is why you should use Hotline. It's thriving these days. Better than Napster and been around for longer. The only down side is you have to weed through a bunch of porno to get to the good stuff (unless you really like porno). http://www.bigredh.com -l P.S. I have a Hotline server. You can't get buttloads of MP3s though. It's dedicated to computer music composition/programming/performance. It's in the early stages, so contributions to the collection would be appriciated. vortex.kickmedia.com login as guest for now. on 12/8/00 9:28 AM, Armchair Charlie at dubnovibrator@hotmail.com wrote:

quoted 43 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 > 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 > 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 > 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, > but when i tried to make a new user name, i got a window that said something > 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 > 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 > buy it. if i don't, then i'll delete it. oh well. > > char > ______________________________________________________________________________ > _______ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org >

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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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

quoted 2 lines oh well, guess i won't be buying

> oh well, guess i won't be buying > anymore idm records cuz i have no way of hearing them before hand.

this will really make those IDM labels think twice about.. about... about something they did to be party to this terrible injustice that has been done to you. -rk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

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...ok ....at the risk of dragging this on ....but i gotta know. what's a "cuck"? william ----- Original Message ----- From: "Armchair Charlie" <dubnovibrator@hotmail.com>

quoted 1 line you cuck

> you cuck

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coming from "cex" id think it means you "cuck" coming from "sex" id think it means you "suck" shimone http://www.staticbeats.com -----Original Message----- From: =wmh= <wmh@direct.ca> To: Armchair Charlie <dubnovibrator@hotmail.com>; cex@tigerbeat6.com <cex@tigerbeat6.com> Cc: idm@hyperreal.org <idm@hyperreal.org> Date: Friday, December 08, 2000 3:03 PM Subject: Re: [idm] i got banned from napster

quoted 15 lines ...ok ....at the risk of dragging this on ....but i gotta know. what's a

>...ok ....at the risk of dragging this on ....but i gotta know. what's a >"cuck"? >william > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Armchair Charlie" <dubnovibrator@hotmail.com> > >> you cuck > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

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Personally I *like* buying blind most of the time. Of course, the longer you've been buying/browsing the genre, the greater the perpiscuity anyway. Also I tend to be of the opinion that the best stuff can't be assessed on initial listening (or sometimes several) anyways - especially of this ilk. Although music has several functions, that of 'paradigm stetching' is something which is more likely to take place with IDM than in some other categories - and that usually takes more than one spin around the block (for me anyway). jeff Rjyan Kidwell wrote:

quoted 9 lines oh well, guess i won't be buying

> > oh well, guess i won't be buying > > anymore idm records cuz i have no way of hearing them before hand. > > this will really make those IDM labels think twice about.. about... > about something they did to be party to this terrible injustice that has > been done to you. > > -rk >

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quoted 1 line Personally I *like* buying blind most of the time.

> Personally I *like* buying blind most of the time.

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I guess I often like buying blind too. But not always. I remember about a month ago I ordered a package of records, all of which spawned from hype on the list. I hadn't heard any of them, but decided to take a chance. I hated every last one of them. I think from that day on, I demanded to hear before I buy. The only label that I think does an exceptional job at letting possible customers hear the music before hand is Merck (www.m3rck.net). They give 45-60 sec. samples for each track on every release (even for some of the upcoming releases. Needless to say, I've bought almost every record from Merck, just cuz I've been provided with that option (and it's good stuff of course:). Other labels like Tigerbeat (not to dis) only give samples for a few tracks. For me anyways, that's not convincing enough. One thing I will give Tigerbeat tho, is that high quality mp3 samples are given rather than ra. And I appreciate that. So I guess Napster has somewhat spoiled me in that I can actually hear this music before I buy it, and that's not always been the case. The bad labels that depend on shear hype to sell a record are now being challenged to make good music. All the hype in the world isn't gonna get me to buy a record if I hear it first and it sucks. Like you were saying, this music can demand some extended attention to really be appreciated, and that's not possible with the resources that the labels make available :P

quoted 10 lines Personally I *like* buying blind most of the time. Of course, the longer

>Personally I *like* buying blind most of the time. Of course, the longer >you've been buying/browsing the genre, the greater the perpiscuity anyway. >Also I tend to be of the opinion that the best stuff can't be assessed on >initial listening (or sometimes several) anyways - especially of this ilk. >Although music has several functions, that of 'paradigm stetching' is >something which is more likely to take place with IDM than in some other >categories - and that usually takes more than one spin around the block >(for >me anyway). > jeff

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On 9 Dec 2000, Armchair Charlie wrote re Re: [idm] i got banned from napster:

quoted 3 lines Like you were saying, this music can demand some extended

> Like you were saying, this music can demand some extended > attention to really be appreciated, and that's not possible with > the resources that the labels make available :P

Counter question : do you wear a pair of sneakers for a month before deciding that they really feel comfortable and spending the money, or do you just walk up and down the length of the aisle in the store before your purchase? Just asking - I * --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org