and I was wondering what you would think if you could pay a supscription service to get AG back. This idea has been put forward before with napster and obviously AG has thought of the idea. Personally I would pay any amount of money to get AG back. That way not only can we get it back, we won't have to wrorry about the fucking RIAA stutting it down and our favorite trance artists won't get ripped off. I was suprised to see that only 15% were in favour of a subscription service, so it's unlikely to happen. But I believe it will happen one day, it has to becuase the RIAA will never win the war on mp3's as soon as they shut one file sharing program down 10 new ones pop up!
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Jun-22-2002 13:32
CortexBomb
Slave to the Dark Beat
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Watching the Waves under Red Skies on My World
I would have gladly paid a subscription fee to keep AG up but only if it had the same song availability...AG (and this web site) were the reasons I was able to get into Trance to begin with, supporting it would have been a no-brainer.
Sadly though, I don't think a subscription would have been anywhere near enough to keep the music we love available with the agreement that AG inked with RIAA where they would have to get permission from each label...it's not a big deal to make a deal with large labels like Sony to keep a huge number of crap pop artists up but the Trance/House/Progressive culture is made up of so many little labels that getting deals with all or even a majority of them would have probably been more work that AG would have been willing to go to.
Really though, it's not as though all of us didn't see this coming. I knew AG was doomed from the first when they decided to go with the web interface for their sat, still, it's a shame to see it go.
Jun-22-2002 15:18
T_2199
life on mars ?
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: An der schönen Stadt am Main (Frankfurt)
right now I wouldn´t pay anything coz there are so many alternatives... but if everything would go down I would pay... perhaps 5 € a month
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Jun-22-2002 16:29
mikefasssy
Fa Kin Su Pah
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Vancouver
i'd pay fo sho!
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Jun-22-2002 17:03
whiskers
old skool
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: in your dreams
nope--> i'm on 56K. but even if i had broadband, i have my other sources...
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Jun-22-2002 19:45
fieroavian
Mentally Sick
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Netherworld
really NOT trying to be "wiser than thou", but...
funny that everyone says they'd pay when it's out of the game. i bet 9 out of 10 ppl would go apeshit, call them greedy money grabbers and stuff, if AG forced us to pay before RIAA sued them.
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Originally posted by dj_cuba
Personally I would pay any amount of money to get AG back.
really? ANY amount?? heh.
j/k, i know what ya mean mate.
Jun-22-2002 23:05
Blue.
Enjoy the silence
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Mississauga
So first the price of cable internet goes up and now I pay for AG? f**k that
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Jun-23-2002 02:01
jp
Retired tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Holland
I think they should pay me for all the trash they made me download!
Jun-23-2002 02:31
Warez Guy
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Vancouver, Canada
I'd only pay if I couldn't find the stuff I wanted elsewhere.
Jun-23-2002 03:43
Rakoon
2001 - 2003
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Gone
Did Audiogalaxy Gold get shut down too?
Jun-23-2002 04:30
JM
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Seattle, USA
no way. i guess AG was good. but now there are bigger and better things.
always upgrade, never downgrade
>JM<
Jun-23-2002 04:49
heydj70
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Florida, U.S.A
Why pay? Just wait for the next big p2p service or just find websites that post stuff!
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Would you pay?...
. I was suprised to see that only 15% were in favour of a subscription service, so it's unlikely to happen. But I believe it will happen one day, it has to becuase the RIAA will never win the war on mp3's as soon as they shut one file sharing program down 10 new ones pop up!
