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Das Ende von ETN.FM ???
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| Mark Winston |
Hallo Leute,
habe gerade diese Nachricht quasi aus erster Hand bekommen, direkt von WILL und ich möchte Sie euch nicht vorenthalten: :(
The last days of ETN?
Current mood: sad
Category: Music
The rumors are true. Our stream sponsor is cancelling ALL their Shoutcast stream hosting at the end of June. This is ETN's achilles heel, and the only reason we're high quality, free, and reliable. well, "reliable" being a relative term but in the absence of stream SOURCE problems, anybody anywhere in the world could listen to one of the main servers with no problem.
There's all sorts of ideas being kicked around right now... of course the best thing that could happen would be if we manage to pull some strings or something and keep some servers with the provider somehow. Secondary to that, is if we somehow manage to locate another sponsor for streams or cash to buy reliable streams. The last resort is of course just pulling the plug.
A lot of other options I know, but the leadership of ETN is very clear on 2 points:
1) we don't want to go back to the "old days" of a loose network of unreliable servers around the world. Think back to the ETS Global or even etranceselections days when it was really a pain in the ass to find a good, working server. now multiply that times all the streams and the fact we have about 5 times the listener base of those days.
2) we will not become a subscriber station. It goes against all the principles we've operated under for years and honestly we don't have anybody to administer something like that full time. Paying customers means terms of service, SLAs and deliverables... and I get enough of that crap at work. Rather than have a long, slow slide into oblivion I'd rather just pull the plug while we're popular and keep the option to return someday... like when I win the lottery or something and money stops being an issue ;)
Just so this isn't a completely negative post, it's D-Day so mad respect. Also, I'm prepping the May06 downloads, they'll probably be ready next week.
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| nz-fan |
WTF!!!????????
Thats sooooooooooooooo sad !!!
2nd die I see now........... :( :( :( |
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| PBM |
| Hm, hab es zwar in letzter Zeit wegen Überflutung von Sets aus diesem Forum eher selten gehört, wäre aber extrem Schade.. aber da wird sich sicher irgendwas finden. |
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| Bloodflower |
| schade, war monatelang vor mercury zeiten meine favorite no1 radio station! :( |
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| Ojay |
| Das wäre wirklich sehr schade. Ich dachte aber immer, ETN.fm hätte mehrere Stream Hosts (ETN3 ist ein anderer als ETN1, zum Beispiel). Daher bin ich auch verdutzt dazu... |
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| DjShadow |
| :eek: :eek: ...can't believe it, one of the worst news that could be...i love etn.fm :( ...hope it never happens...cheers |
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| sabi10 |
Damn..i just wake up and to get this sed news on the morning:( ...
man, i'm going to cry.... |
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| Sav0n |
| sehr schlechte nachricht. bei mir läuft eigentlich immer etn.fm wenn ich daheim bin. |
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| Frank-HH |
| wäre sehr!!! schade....:( |
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| dein_feind |
tja wurde es AOL doch zuviel.
aber das gleiche ist ja schon mit tranceairwave passiert. |
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| TomTom |
| Es gibt auch noch andere Sender, die auf wackligen (stellenweise halb-legalen, weil unter der Hand mit Sysadmins vereinbarten freien Zugängen) AOL-Beinen stehen. Ich weiß, warum wir die Unabhängigkeit bevorzugt haben, auch wenn es eine Menge Geld kostet jeden Monat aber uns dreht keiner den Hahn ab außer wir selbst. :D |
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