Re: gnapster problems
Except that I rebooted into *shudder* windoze to see if the
official napster client was still working, and it was. I rebooted into
Linux and gnapster was having the same problems. Maybe part of napster is
shut down and I got lucky in windoze? Don't know...
It'd be cool to continue on the private servers even if they shut
down napster, but how long before those private servers are nailed
too? Seems to me that gnutella is the next target. Granted, they transfer
everything there, but they could be forced to screen mp3s. I mean, we'd
have the change the file extensions during transfer. ;-)
Mike
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Dale Morris wrote:
> Mike, I wouldn't be surprised if it were some sort of decision to
> shutdown for a while. I believe Thursday or Friday the Fed judge ruled
> against mp3.com, although their case is a little different. Costs will
> run somewhere around 350 million for mp3 if they lose. I'm sure they
> will appeal, though. This is really interesting, we're seeing things
> unfold right before our eyes on the digital frontier. These ruling will
> affect the future of copyright laws. Of course, I'm sure the
> 'old-fashioned-old technology' judge doesn't realize there are many ways
> around his ruling. If gnapster goes down, it can be done privately on
> individually hosted servers. I am not sure but I think gnutella and free
> serve both work this way. More will be revealed..
>
> dale
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