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From:
Lee Azzarello
To:
IDM
Date:
Fri, 08 Dec 2000 11:17:44 -0800
Subject:
Re: [idm] i got banned from napster
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<B65673D7.2E00%roswell@alumni.antioch-college.edu>
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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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