fodders Posted February 12, 2001 We all mourn the death of Napster tonight :( 0 Share this post Link to post
X-DOOM Posted February 12, 2001 Napster is not death ! I'm download on him ! 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted February 12, 2001 Judge in USA ordered it shutdown, it is a matter of days if not hours 0 Share this post Link to post
AdamW Posted February 12, 2001 as i heard it, it isn't actually ordered shut down, per se - the judge confirmed most of the lower court's decision, but handed the case back to that court for final action. so it might be a bit yet before it closes. who gives a fuck, there's enough clones... 0 Share this post Link to post
X-Blade Posted February 13, 2001 Fodders said:We all mourn the death of Napster tonight :( I wouldn't call it dead yet. Terminally ill is the better word...simply because the big record labels have enough money to buy the best legal team in the business. The guys at napster eventually will lose their case. Right now, they're going through denial... 0 Share this post Link to post
danarchist Posted February 13, 2001 <Plays little invisible violin> I never really cared for Napster anyways, I prefer to get my CDs commercially, albiet from the bargain bins. But it serves the record companies right, If they want to jack up the prices of CDs (I heard a regular CD can cost up to $40 in Seattle, while a CD only costs 40 cents to make), then they deserve to lose money to this. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted February 13, 2001 Napster is up there with WindowsME, Netscape and AOL as one of the worst pieces of coding garbage in existence. Hopefully somebody with a the slightest bit of programming knowledge will make a good clone. I supported the cause, but the product was shite. 0 Share this post Link to post
stphrz Posted February 13, 2001 Hmmm. It seemed to work ok for the most part for me. I did notice however that it caused problems with my network. Problems that could only be solved by shutting it down and rebooting all my pcs. Is that the kind of stuff you were referring to? 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest deathwarrior Posted February 13, 2001 it's dead? i never knew that at all 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest s999cop Posted February 13, 2001 oh yeah, fod, youre right. I just watched channel 5 news(US) about napster, it might be gone 4ever ! 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted February 13, 2001 With a connection like mine I would be quicker jumping in the car, driving the 20 miles or so to the nearest decent CD shop, parking, walking to the shop, buying the CD I wanted, walking back to the car, driving home and then playing the CD rather than waiting for all the tracks to download. And I would have a nice shiny CD with a cover, sleeve notes and everything. Of course, that option would cost more. 0 Share this post Link to post
Jon Posted February 13, 2001 nah, the death of napster means the rebirth of good old FTP style trading, where you are your own boss. 0 Share this post Link to post
stphrz Posted February 13, 2001 Enjay said:With a connection like mine I would be quicker jumping in the car, driving the 20 miles or so to the nearest decent CD shop, parking, walking to the shop, buying the CD I wanted, walking back to the car, driving home and then playing the CD rather than waiting for all the tracks to download. And I would have a nice shiny CD with a cover, sleeve notes and everything. Of course, that option would cost more. I use napster to check stuff out before I buy. As soon as I get the cd I delete the appropriate mp3s from my harddisk. I don't keep stuff I don't intend to buy... 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted February 13, 2001 s999cop said:oh yeah, fod, youre right. I just watched channel 5 news(US) about napster, it might be gone 4ever ! Not gone, I suspect there will be a "Subscription" soon $9.99/month at a guess :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted February 14, 2001 Stphrz said:Hmmm. It seemed to work ok for the most part for me. I did notice however that it caused problems with my network. Problems that could only be solved by shutting it down and rebooting all my pcs. Is that the kind of stuff you were referring to? Nah, people are never configured right, there's firewalls, etc. Maybe 20% of the files I tried to download finished OK. People leave in the middle of transfers, get booted, the servers don't sync so you're very limited in the number of people online that you can actually get files from, and my cable connection rarely got transfers of above 10k/s (that's a crying shame). It was one of the most frustrating programs I've used. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted February 14, 2001 Jon said:nah, the death of napster means the rebirth of good old FTP style trading, where you are your own boss. ...and the hours of searching and finding contacts who know which places have decent stuff. 0 Share this post Link to post
stphrz Posted February 14, 2001 Lüt said:Nah, people are never configured right, there's firewalls, etc. Maybe 20% of the files I tried to download finished OK. People leave in the middle of transfers, get booted, the servers don't sync so you're very limited in the number of people online that you can actually get files from, and my cable connection rarely got transfers of above 10k/s (that's a crying shame). It was one of the most frustrating programs I've used. Oh yeah, that stuff. It never bothered me much. I was always able to get what I wanted eventually. Download rates were sometimes slow, but hey that can't always be the program's fault. I remember one time when I tried to download a song from a T3 with a ping of less than 50 and I was only getting about 8 k/s. I checked the user info and it turned out the guy was already uploading more than 40 files and downloading about 12. No fucking wonder :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Naberus Posted February 14, 2001 Lüt said:Napster is up there with WindowsME, Netscape and AOL as one of the worst pieces of coding garbage in existence. Hopefully somebody with a the slightest bit of programming knowledge will make a good clone. I supported the cause, but the product was shite. AudioGnome is a mighty good clone. It also has the best feature ever, FILE RESUMING!!! :D I think it's at http://www.naphoria.com 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted February 14, 2001 Stphrz said:Oh yeah, that stuff. It never bothered me much. I was always able to get what I wanted eventually. Download rates were sometimes slow, but hey that can't always be the program's fault. I remember one time when I tried to download a song from a T3 with a ping of less than 50 and I was only getting about 8 k/s. I checked the user info and it turned out the guy was already uploading more than 40 files and downloading about 12. No fucking wonder :) Yeah, no wonder indeed. It was just too random for me, all the individual users and stuff. I like knowing what to expect from programs, although I got used to feeling like I was on a 56K modem again with Napster. That thing murdered my internet connection. Even when there was no activity, my browsing still slowed by like 400%, so I just had to cut it off sometimes. 0 Share this post Link to post