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Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: Carl on September 16, 2002, 08:51:37 pm: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020916/ap_on_hi_te/napster_offer_3

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Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: demon442 on September 16, 2002, 08:54:29 pm: Yes, it is very sad. But thats life. Good things exist, then are destroyed by the people not benifiting from it. It happens everywhere, everyday, and over everything. What else is there to say?
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: Knight Templar on September 16, 2002, 08:56:01 pm: :lol: :lol: :lol:

how sad.

try xolox, it's austrailian* and you'll never go back... unless you are looking for porn... then you want Bearshare.

* = i can't actually back that up
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: CP5670 on September 16, 2002, 08:57:05 pm: bah, a porn corporation... :p :rolleyes:
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: Knight Templar on September 16, 2002, 08:59:05 pm: Cp knows all about porn corporations... ;)

that is kind of an.... interesting reason to purchase napster...
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: vadar_1 on September 16, 2002, 08:59:35 pm: Napster was already dead. Whats the big deal?
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: diamondgeezer on September 16, 2002, 09:01:15 pm: Quote
Originally posted by demon442
What else is there to say?

Hint: it's five letters long, starts in K and ends in A and for some reason is usually written in bizarely alternating case.
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: demon442 on September 16, 2002, 09:31:13 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer

Hint: it's five letters long, starts in K and ends in A and for some reason is usually written in bizarely alternating case.

Dude KaZaA is the most pathetic form of virus destributing P2P program out. Now WinMX on the other hand...
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: diamondgeezer on September 16, 2002, 09:36:11 pm: I have both operating most of the time. WinMX doen't seem to have a quater of Kazaa's content, but it does have a superb interface and distinct lack of addies and spyware.
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: Admiral LSD on September 17, 2002, 12:53:54 am: WinMX's interface superb? What are you on? That has the worst interface of any P2P program out there (save maybe Audiogalaxy...).
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: Knight Templar on September 17, 2002, 01:09:18 am: A BIG *AUSSIE* COUGH (www.xolox.com)

* once again i cannot realisticly back that statement up at the moment.
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: Crazy_Ivan80 on September 17, 2002, 04:11:59 am: you could say napster is fu**** :p
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: diamondgeezer on September 17, 2002, 07:15:06 am: Quote
Originally posted by Admiral LSD
WinMX's interface superb? What are you on? That has the worst interface of any P2P program out there

What? It's simple to read information on search returns, and there's enough options and buttons to keep anyone happy. However, one complaint is that too many option buttons are aquezed into too small a space, and you don't get the information about resolution and such that you get with Kazaa. Otherwise, its a pleasure to work with, if it has the content you want...
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: Stunaep on September 17, 2002, 10:20:56 am: Quote
Originally posted by demon442

Dude KaZaA is the most pathetic form of virus destributing P2P program out. Now WinMX on the other hand...

yay!!! finally someone with my taste.

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WinMX's interface superb? What are you on? That has the worst interface of any P2P program out there (save maybe Audiogalaxy...).

why is that?

also, multiple source downloading, automatic alternate finder, chat, hotlist functions, make it all worthwhile.
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: Styxx on September 17, 2002, 11:29:23 am: www.kazaalite.com

No adware, no spyware.
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: Admiral LSD on September 17, 2002, 11:54:58 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stunaep
why is that?

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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
too many option buttons are aquezed into too small a space, and you don't get the information about resolution and such that you get with Kazaa.

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also, multiple source downloading, automatic alternate finder, chat, hotlist functions, make it all worthwhile.

KaZaA does pretty much all of that without having a dogs breakfast for an interface.
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: an0n on September 17, 2002, 11:56:32 am: What's the point in having KaZaA if there aren't any spy-ware packets to trace back to the server (and subsequently, no 'unethical' activities to partake of)?
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: Stealth on September 17, 2002, 12:31:30 pm: lol an0n :D

napster's old... i uninstalled it in 2000.

i've used WinMX since then
Title: Would there be a name change?
Post by: Star Dragon on September 17, 2002, 12:36:02 pm: Though the sale waws blocked... That company should get innovative and just make a clone and call it "Snatchster!"
:nervous:

(Crawls back into the net)...
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: RandomTiger on September 17, 2002, 12:39:44 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Styxx
www.kazaalite.com

No adware, no spyware.

Not quite. Run Adaware and you'll find one still there.
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: Alikchi on September 17, 2002, 01:41:54 pm: Yeah, I prefer Kazaalite also.
Interesting to know there's still one ad, though. Oh well, as long as it doesn't screw up my system, I'm okay.
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: Stunaep on September 17, 2002, 01:55:42 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Alikchi
Yeah, I prefer Kazaalite also.
Interesting to know there's still one ad, though. Oh well, as long as it doesn't screw up my system, I'm okay.

Yeah, that's why I stopped using KaZaA. One of it's ad/spyware products screwed up my PC, so it started throwing out the blue screens of death at random times. Uninstalling KaZaA, and covering everything with AdAware fixed it.
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: Alikchi on September 17, 2002, 02:05:57 pm: I haven't had those problems with Lite though, so I'll just stick with it - although I do use WinMX as backup.

Yay, I have every South Park episode ever made downloaded now.
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: diamondgeezer on September 17, 2002, 03:28:38 pm: Quote
Originally posted by RandomTiger

Not quite. Run Adaware and you'll find one still there.

*installs KaZaA Lite*

*reads readme*

*learns that the AdAware alert is due to a 'dummy' dll, which is there to keep KaZaA happy*

*doesn't worry about it*

Go KaZaA Lite!
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: Stryke 9 on September 17, 2002, 03:30:46 pm: GO SEARCH ENGINE AND TEN MINUTES! FIND ALL THE CRAP, INCLUDING MUSIC, YOU'D EVER NEED!

I hear that Gnutella is good, tho. I wouldn't know, since mp3s are a, er, secondary interest.
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: demon442 on September 17, 2002, 10:04:53 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
*learns that the AdAware alert is due to a 'dummy' dll, which is there to keep KaZaA happy*Go KaZaA Lite!

A dummy dll...One question:Why?[/i]
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: JC Denton on September 18, 2002, 11:15:59 am: The dummy dll held all the key info for the spyware crap in Kazaa. They altered it so the stuff doesn't initialize. Although it disables some of the menu items.

Actually, newer versions of AdAware can differentiate between the dummy dll and the real one.

and unfortunately I can't use p2p sharing because of the uni's damn firewall. anything not on http port 80 gets blocked. and they have a frightening policy on port tunneling...
Title: OT-our beloved napster goes down the drain
Post by: diamondgeezer on September 18, 2002, 11:35:40 am: Hee hee, I can install and run WinMX at Uni... shame there's bugger all content compared to KaZaA...