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
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