| From: | Colin Wenzel |
| Date: | 30 Oct 2000 at 15:44:06 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIGEN: Ami-Napster |
Well thanks to your previous URL on a related email,
I downloaded the "Amster" program & within minutes
I had it running...
First search resulted in multiple copies of a real obscure
song I have been looking for for up to a year...!!!
Even the music shop had no listing for it...
I have been searching the mp3 sites (that tend to move daily)
but no luck... So far I have 90% of it, Wonderfull !!!
I have been told by pc friends that it is great, but I had no idea
that it was this big, so thanks again, you are a fountain of info..
Just goes to show, I gave up thinking about it when I heard the
legal woes about Napster & thought they killed it - dead..
PS: It's a real nice MUI program too...
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On 31-Oct-00, g'o'tz ohnesorge wrote:
> Colin Wenzel wrote:
>> I thought they closed Napster down ???
>> Now I hear there is an Amiga-Napster client program...
>> Anyone got the whole story..?
> Well, first of all, like the internet, Napster is more than a small
> company running a server.
> It's a philosophy: I have music files on my harddisk, others have,
> too, so we should share. We're also all on a speedy network, so we
> can easily use that.
> Now while we could do it by hand, or using plain old FTP servers, why
> not jsut have a little search engine and clients that register my
> files to a central server, and give me a list of other servers that
> have any other song I might want to listen to, and then the client
> would just download the music from there to me at no further effort.
> The original Napster company then made money with ad banners in their
> software (I assume; lacking interest in music, I never tried - you
> just can't download silence, yet).
> Soon The Music Industry, hated by their employees as much as their
> customers and everybody else, found foul with the scheme, in that
> they fear it might allow people to get music without paying ransom to
> The Industry.
> Being utterly American, they went on as usual, trying to sue the hell
> out of Napster.
> After a trial that should have been on television, and will probably
> become a lengthy movie once Spielberg or Coppola figure out what's
> happening, a judge decided that Napster lends out ships to evil old
> swashbuckler school kids and that this is against the law and that
> Napster has to stop it immediately and thanked The Industry for their
> financial contribution (oops I didn't say that).
> But being a legal system, that was never near the end of it. Napster
> rejected the motion on grounds that it'd be bollocks and both parties
> should have another round of making lawyers rich. So Napster
> continues to operate, though under some limitations like trying to
> ban users that all too obviously offer Metallica CDs or whatever,
> while trying to barter out a deal with The Industry in case the next
> court trial should end as bad as the prior one and fail to generate
> prosperous book and movie rights.
> Now since I can't follow any court affait for longer that ten seconds
> of its movie trailer, let's look at the rest of the world. Remember
> my previous line that it's not just a company, but a philosophy of
> doing things once you're connected to a net. You can't stop a
> philosophy, be it with courts or bullets.
> The kidz figgured out that their one and only Napster might go away,
> so they should better have a set of spare ones. Thought and done,
> they hacked the protocol of the original Napster server, and soon a
> bunch of other, compatible ones sprung up, on private machines around
> the globe.
> Of course the usefulness of such servers depends a bit on how many
> people offer stuff on them, so as to cut the confusion where there
> might be yet another obscure Napster clone server, a search tool for
> these was created, called Napigator.
> And since MP3 files aren't the only thing worth sharing, someone came
> up with Wrapster, a proggie which makes all other file types just
> appear like MP3s so you can trade them across the Napster
> infrastructure.
> And so on.
> You can find more about Napster and related stuff with a focus on
> music at http://www.zeropaid.com , and the broader issue of advanced
> information sharing systems from a technical and free speech point of
> view at http://www.infoanarchy.org .
> It's the way things are going. A new mutation of the net as we knew
> it.
> Of course, The Industry is running amok over it.
> Law suits, and calls for filtering and blocking systems, and actual
> legal effort like UCITA, DMCA, RPS, RIP, and what not are being
> pushed with impunity, designed to protect content distribution
> monopolies of times that used to be, and eating away like wildfires
> at once granted constitutional and human freedom rights of the
> individual.
> Over the next couple of years, the internet will see its civil war.
Regards