with napster terminal what are you going to use?

[leftyman]

now that napsters days are numbered what mp3 "sharing" program are you going to use? audio galaxy and gnutella look like the leaders. so where do you think the bulk of napster users will go?

 

[Sunner]

Lets just see what happens to Napster.
Its not over yet

 

[Taz4158]

IF they go down I assume most would use Napigator's servers.

 

[Biggs]

The fat lady has not sung yet!

 

[Taz4158]

<< The fat lady has not sung yet! >>


Shelly Winters works for Napster?

 

[Basse]

I think most of the current Napster users never downloaded MP3's before Napster came out. Before you almost always had to use a FTP client or MIRC etc to secure downloads. Napster made MP3's available to all areas of computer users because its so very easy to use, install etc.

Soo... I believe most current Napster users (not users in this forum though) will wait until a similar application comes out which is as easy to use as Napster.

/B

 

[leftyman]

i know everybody WANTS napster alive but i think big brother nailed it to the cross this time. the record labels want it dead or under their control,ie; we pay! just dont see how napster can survive this time

 

[Sunner]

They did win a partial victory in court yesterday.
Should keep them floating for a bit longer.
Either way, its too late to stop it now, if Napster goes down, other similar programs with be there to take its place.

Not that I think the record companies are really losing that much, but one could always hope, would suit them right after all the years they've been screwing musicans and consumers alike.

 

[Yzzim]

I'll use Napigator

Or Scour since it's coming back

 

[extro]

The Opennap servers for starters, but I expect the record companies to go after them too. Some people with turn to gnutella, songspy etc... That will fractionalize the current Napster user base and make it harder to find stuff.

Bummer!

 

[smp]

I was told by someone that the Nap servers that you can find with Napigator would go down too if Napster sinks.. is that true? I never downloaded mp3's before Napster.. I never had a sound card But yeah.. can you ftp those servers? The ones you find with napigator? Wouldn't Napigator go down too, isn't it infringing the same laws.. so if they kill Napster that would give them the same legal power to kill Napigator/gnutella.. (I dont' know sh!t about gnutella actually.. what's up with that one?)

 

[Miraluka]

I heard that Scour isn't truly coming back, that its just letting people download legally available files. Like...stuff you can already just find on http websites. So Scour will be less useful than it used to be.

 

[BD2003]

Gnutella can never be killed by design. The courts can knock off every other service but never gnutella. It has no central cerver, its some strange filtered peer to peer networking strategy thats not exactly great for those on modems. But with no servers, how can you shut it down? You couldnt even fire its creators, because its under free public license.

And yes, if you knock down napsters server, it appears napigator goes down. I dont quite understand why yet, but napster is blocked here at my school, and we cant get the napigator servers.

 

[barlav]

I will use Gnutella. I've had good luck with it. It's not as easy as Napster but it's functional enough for me.

 

[borealiss]

irc

 

[Stephen24]

File Navigator is really good, I am going to use it. In fact, I have been using it the past week and it's worked quite well as good as napster imo.

 

[HomerSapien]

songspy, if they ever get it working right

songspy

 

[Packet]

BigDee2003:

Maybe they block the napster ports, to prevent any napster clones from working. Thats my Guess.

Bearshare might be cool, basicly it an easier to use gnutella program. Works really well to search and find results... but d4mn it, I have yet to be able to download something.

I could never get gnutella to find files, and I can't get bearshare to download them... augh!

 

[Zenmervolt]

Packet, blocking ports is exactly how colleges prohibit access to Napster and the like. I have a friend who works in his University's IT department and he has said that this is how they restrict access, at least where he goes to school. More on topic, if Napster dies there's always gnutella, and Imesh, and many others, just check out www.zeropaid.com. The idea is out there and no matter how much the record companies hate it there will always be programs like Napster.

Zenmervolt

 

[randomlinh]

now, is there anything out there other than napster that will search mp3s by bitrate...

 

[Macro2]

Can't Napster just take it's servers offshore?
Outside US juristiction to some country where it can't be touched.

Mac

 

[aGeNt73]

FTp and websites...and IRC is still there..

 

[Zorba]

I will still use IRC. I like it much better than Napster in the first place.

 

[hifimaster]

<< Can't Napster just take it's servers offshore?
Outside US juristiction to some country where it can't be touched. >>



I dont see why not ,any one know why this wouldn't work?

 

[Packet]

I think it would

I remember an article in wired awhile back about an island.. &quot;data island&quot; I think.

basicly its a small island that its own country, so it has its own laws. Its basic purpouse is for people to be able to store electronic information so that the goverment can't require you to give it up (via trial etc).
So if they were to get the servers there, it would be quite cool.