Audiogalaxy blocking songs.
October 23, 2001 12:13 AM Subscribe
An example:
as of last weekend a search of "Guns'n'roses welcome to the jungle" turned up nothing but X's.
A search of "Welcome to the jungle" turned up tons of copies with names like "guns(artist name)- and roses welcome to the jungle(song title)"
pretty weak. God bless copyright infringement!!!
posted by ttrendel at 12:22 AM on October 23, 2001
WinMX has been working pretty well, for me.
posted by brookedel at 12:28 AM on October 23, 2001
posted by hincandenza at 12:41 AM on October 23, 2001
Only because all of my experiences with Gnutella have resulted in glacial download speeds on the 1 occasion out of 100 that I've found the file I'm looking for. And that's on a cable line.
I wanted to like Gnutella, I really really did.
posted by toddshot at 12:46 AM on October 23, 2001
posted by moss at 12:59 AM on October 23, 2001
Personally, I use Gnucleus and been pretty satisfied (the program is still sometimes buggy, but because it's open source and continually developed, I've seen many flaws fixed and features added with each new minor rev.). Most every time I search I'm successful and can usually download with good reliability and speed- certainly no slower than Napster was with its wide variety of users on 28K up to OC3 connections. Gnutella is an open standard where the Bearshares can talk to the Limewires who download from the Swapnuts; because of this openness, no one program maker has to develop and attract that same former Napster crowd, and together they can perhaps some day come close to or possible even exceed that 30-40 million user base.
Finally, gnutella's still an early- and open- standard, and I have hope that as it is progresses it will become better and better in regards to overcoming the decentralization hurdle that makes searches still slow to return or not a complete look at every user's database (perhaps this will be done through reflectors or other dynamic centralization innovations). As it stands right now, for me at least, with a fast home user connection that hurdle is already pretty much cleared.
posted by hincandenza at 1:24 AM on October 23, 2001
I've found that I can regularly fill my DSL pipe from it.
It's just a case of right-clicking on the download and choosing "find more sources for download". Then it segments the file and gets different parts from different people, all at once.
Something the gnutella clones just need to get right in order to ultimately triumph ...
ps KaZaA is now available for Linux, apparently. Not sure if it still has spy software
posted by walrus at 1:29 AM on October 23, 2001
Munchy Crunchy death throes
Death throes, death throes
Download while you can.
posted by fooljay at 1:37 AM on October 23, 2001
posted by viama at 1:55 AM on October 23, 2001
posted by walrus at 2:20 AM on October 23, 2001
who ever writes those vile 'hey would you like some adverts' programs deserves a seat in hell next to phil collins
posted by mrben at 4:59 AM on October 23, 2001
The only thing is, is that even if you find stuff on Kazaa, there aren't enough sources to do the downloads oftentimes, especially on larger files. Example: I have this summer's "Family Guy" episodes on my TiVo box still. I'd like to offload them somehow, but would be easier if I could just download them (I don't own VHS since my VCR died and I am not replacing it because I have DVD). But if I pull it up, there might be some entries, but a lot of people move that stuff out as soon as they download it. The result is that after they have it, they don't care anymore about sharing it with others, so they move it from their share folder. And that, in the end, is what will ultimately hinder these file sharing sites and services, is that 2% of the people provide 98% of the content.
posted by benjh at 5:07 AM on October 23, 2001
I stopped using Audiogalaxy months ago, when they starting banning songs: the writing is on the wall there, regardless of incorrectly spelled song titles.
benjh: read this article by Clay Shirky for a different take on freeloading.
I want a gnutella that works.
posted by walrus at 5:13 AM on October 23, 2001
posted by gramcracker at 6:31 AM on October 23, 2001
The new filters, whilst still letting *some* variants and misspellings through, are draconian in comparison. They hit not only the vast majority of popular searches but also a huge range of unusual material, from stuff unavailable on CD, to songs AudioGalaxy themselves previously made available for download on a promotional basis, to classical music and tracks deliberately released on AG by the artists themselves to avoid saddling their own servers with bandwidth costs.
And then last week all users were forced to upgrade to the latest version of the client software (the old one stopped working). The new version is buggy, doesn't work for many people, and comes encumbered with even more spyware than the previous versions - and, unlike previous versions, stealth-installs one particularly evil parasite, VX2, without warning.
[I advise you check you haven't got VX2 installed, it's a really horrible piece of work. I've put a page up at http://and.doxdesk.com/parasite/ that can do it for you.]
So, though I'm still using AG for now, I'd very much like to move on. But the other networks don't seem much good for the obscure stuff I'm generally looking for. Pah.
posted by BobInce at 7:01 AM on October 23, 2001
posted by preguicoso at 8:33 AM on October 23, 2001
posted by zeoslap at 9:23 AM on October 23, 2001
posted by aaron at 9:38 AM on October 23, 2001
I've asked for them to be unblocked.
posted by tpoh.org at 2:38 PM on October 23, 2001
posted by kevspace at 8:42 PM on October 23, 2001
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