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- Alex76, on 10/11/2007, -5/+111Aaaah... The original Napster... RIP
- igyigyigy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+75Remember Audiogalaxy? That was a great service back in the day.
- MacParrot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+68I'm so old I remember when Mtv played music
- BlahTsk, on 10/11/2007, -8/+53It -literally- blew your mind, eh? Wow, that sucks.
- Anrkist, on 10/11/2007, -2/+45MP3.com was a great service back in the day.. Cnet tends to destroy anything it touches though. Shame tvtome couldn't make this list, it was a truley unique site. Now it's just filled with eye candy and poor user commentary. Last I checked you had to spend X ammount of hours on the site before posting anything, as if spending time on the internet makes you an expert.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+39liksang, napster, supernova
i love u - geekfrom99, on 10/11/2007, -1/+40@fkr3
actually i don't think you will see anyone's band on mtv anymore - brstilson, on 10/11/2007, -4/+36Do my eyes....deceive me? Duggmirror.....actually worked???
*passes out* - listrophy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+32Anyone remember that flash cartoon of Lars and James explaining why they had to shut down Napster? James was a hulking beast who hated fire (Fire bad! FIRE BAD!) and Lars was a spindly little weasel climbing over everything.
Ahh the memories: http://www.campchaos.com/blog-archives/2006/05/napster_bad.html - h3ndrix, on 10/11/2007, -10/+41goatse?
- quietcynic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26Man, hearing Lik-Sang only opens up old wounds.
Things like that and the whole rootkit scandal make me wonder if perhaps Sony really, really hates selling its products. - importpsycho, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26title should read Death by RIAA
- TimOgg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24can we not just ban people that say "try gigatribe", it is getting on my nerves.
- DreKor, on 10/11/2007, -4/+28Oh, you're against the record labels too? Cool.
There's no excuse for a band to have anyone between them and their fans today. - kevyn, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24@ModOps
im in a band... i have recorded an album...i'm not signed... - kevyn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18i used to miss OLGA - its a very sad story, but now i just use ultimate-guitar.com
- MatttK, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20Yeah but I think the fuss was over the reasons. Nobody can fault the console makers for suing over mod chips but suing someone because they're helping to sell your product in a continent you're too slow to provide to.. well that just seems a little silly.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16There is a plague of excess lawyers in the world, they have to find something to do? 95% of them should be retrained as something more useful to society such as telephone sanitizer, second class.
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15LikSang was awesome. I ordered a few gadgets from them, and never had a problem with them shipping to the U.S.
- GawtMilk, on 10/11/2007, -4/+18Just a note on Lik-Sang. Sony may have been the final person to sue them, but both Microsoft and Nintendo sucessfully sued them for millions of dollars as well.
From Wikipedia
In 2002, the company was sued by major game console producers, such as Sony Computer Entertainment, Nintendo, Microsoft, etc., alleging contributory copyright infringement, since the mod chips (and other related devices) enabled playing of pirated game titles on those consoles. The court granted injunctions preventing Lik Sang from selling these devices.[2] After these suits, Lik Sang began expanding its area of expertise by reinventing itself (under a new owner) as a vendor of legitimate, but obscure, accessories, such as consumer electronics, games, merchandise, and t-shirts.
In August of 2005, the company was once again in legal trouble, this time from Sony. Lik Sang had imported PSPs from areas where they were available, and re-exported them to UK customers before the UK release date, which Sony alleged was a breach of their trademark rights.[3] Lik Sang continued shipping PSPs, claiming Hong Kong's laws allow an item to be traded freely once it appears in a market anywhere in the world. - dbxz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15We should try to bring back liksang... (without sony products)
they really did offer such a great service. - FadieZ, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14OK well I just found out Pandora was down for us Canadians...
what a bummer, eh. - kevyn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12i didnt record in a top notch studio or anything, but they sound good, and the recordings help a hell of a lot to get more and more gigs... and thats what its about really...
and as for high speed internet access for fans...well i think that playing gigs is a better way to get fans, plus you can make money off tickets and merch (not much i know, but every little helps)
(sorry this comment is in 2 parts but 'there was an error when updating your comment' the first time round!) - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14http://duggmirror.com/tech_news/Death_By_Lawyer_10_Cool_Websites_We_Miss
- xaeon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11I'm in the UK and Pandora is still up and working. This could be, however, due to some information given during sign-up. They ask for a US Zip code, so like every other English person, I used 90210.
If Internet statistics are anything to go by, there must be at least 500 million people living in that area code. - Paperclip1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Thanks to the AACS Code shuffle, we'll soon be able to add digg.com to that list.
- CurtHowland, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10I'm surprised that the Internet Lyric Database didn't make the list.
The Internet Movie Database, which came up at about the same time, found a way to partner with Big Media, so it's still operating. - unclejemima, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11How about People Eating Tasty Animals?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Eating_Tasty_Animals
PETA sued for their domain name and won. Apparently parody in domain names isn't protected when it involves a fanatical/terrorist animal rights organization. - chris9902, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10closing Lik-Sang was a huge mistake. I go out of my way not to buy Sony anymore. ***** 'em.
- aston127, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11WinMX is still online.. It has been hijacked by the users, and very much alive
- FriedTurkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9I don't see how OLGA was a threat when most of the guitar tabs were incomplete and terribly wrong. Maybe they were worried about bad cover bands playing songs with incorrect guitar riffs.
- FearlessFreep, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Problem is that technology over the last 100 years has really made it possible to get a lot more done with a lot less time and effort;as promised. However we have not adapted as a culture to allow that increased productivity to actually change our lives. There is still an expectation that people will work for 40-50 hours a week. In that respect we know have too many people with not enough work. So we end up creating a lot of work just to keep ourselves busy to fill out our 40 hour weeks to justify our paycheck and our place in society.
Look into things like taxes, starting a business, law, investing, buying real estate, etc... We've created an artificaly complex and convoluted and highly inefficient infrastructure to our society. Most of it serves little practical functionality other than to keep a lot of people busy making up the rules and then explaining the rules and helping people with the rules and hurting the people who don't understand the rules. - screwzluse, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10I've never used gigatribe but I gotta say that is one ugly ass gui.
I miss the good 'ol Napster days. I still remember late nights taking Metallica out for a test drive. Little did they know that after downloading their CDs, I actually bought them. Meh, I guess it was too rare of a case. ;-) - ladon86, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Audiogalaxy was my favourite - you could get some really rare and hard to find tracks on there, something which I haven't seen equaled since. But then it got shut down and later spywared.
- arbulus, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11@fridayiminlove
Goddamnit, there you are again!
Give it the ***** up, man.
***** troll. - rilindo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8I'm surprised that lyrics.ch wasn't on the list.
Lyrics.ch contains practically every lyric of every song that was out there. It saved me a lot of work searching for lyrics, which allowed me to determine if the song is great or sucks.
Then it was shutdown by the music companies; when it came back, it had a stupid java interface that you can't copy and paste from and it has 1/20th of the lyrics it had before. Drove quite a number of people I know into downloading songs illegally (no real choice, since they can't tell if the song is good or not)
Oh well, thanks to Google (and soon, Apple), it doesn't matter anymore. Still sucks, though. - nixdoctor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Code writers and the community spend countless hours to build such websites... and it takes a few days for lawyers to take them down :(
- themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I miss Suprnova ;_; RIP
- randallb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7TV Tome is a site I definitely would have put on that list. TV.com just doesn't come close to what was TV Tome. Sure, it was a bit ugly. But it was a nice light interface (unlike tv.com) and seemed to always have what I was looking for. Thanks, CNET, for killing another great site.
- rlutterb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7The shutting down of OLGA just didn't have the widespread outrage because most people don't play guitar.
I miss it immensely, and am upset that the site obviously doesn't have a big enough support base to feel comfortable in saying "f*ck off" to the lawyers. These are people transcribing by ear, and the tabs are never even close to being 100% accurate.
OLGA does need to grow a pair, however. - Tripcast, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Yea, Audiogalaxy was great - filled up my hard drive a treat with MP3's. It's sorely missed.
- FearlessFreep, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7The thing I cannot figure out is the usually the melody for a song and the lyrics for a song are copyright-able, but not the harmony, chord progression, bassline, etc...
Also if I make a transcription of a song and give it to you to learn and neither of us is making money...
I guess I don't understand what pretense is used to shut down sites that post materiel that is normally not copyrightable and no money is exchnaged in the information sharing?
*grumble grumble* spent hours last week trying to find notation for a Stevie Wonder bassline - FearlessFreep, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7"We're suing you because you make our clients look bad"...interesting concept
- snuffhawk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Singingfish was a sweet website. There is no audio search engine even close to as good as it was!
- Jugalator, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Agreed -- of those sites, I liked mp3.com the most, although Napster was "fun", but not really missed these days. :-p
As for this, in the article:
"Luckily, MySpace continued pretty much where MP3.com left off, becoming a new popular vessel for promoting music."
WTF? "Luckily?" Luckily!? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Site is down... I guess that makes it 11 sites we will miss. :(
- Ibanezfoo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5OLGA hurt me the most. That site was great! Even though most of the TABs were crap, out of tune, and just plain wrong. Which makes it even more stupid why it was shut down.
- FriedTurkey, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8"It saved me a lot of work searching for lyrics, which allowed me to determine if the song is great or sucks."
How do lyrics determine if a song is great or sucks? - ,,|,_, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5The coolest part about Audiogalaxy was the ability to find other similar artists. If a dozen people all had an "A Tribe Called Quest" song, and ten of those also had a specific "DJ Babu" song, then the A Tribe Called Quest page would link you to the DJ Babu song. This was a great way to learn about other artists. Only now is Pandora doing something similar (though in a completely different way).
- bkienzle22, on 10/11/2007, -5/+9http://duggmirror.com/tech_news/Death_By_Lawyer_10_Cool_Websites_We_Miss/
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