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Audiogalaxy moves to legal downloads
News One-time file-swapping powerhouse Audiogalaxy, hobbled by a legal settlement with record labels, has launched a legal music offer in place of its old download service. The offer launched quietly on Audiogalaxy's site last week.
[September 10, 2002, 9:02]
Audiogalaxy settles with recording industry
News Audiogalaxy, a popular Internet file-swapping service, agreed Monday to filter copyrighted works as part of a legal settlement with the recording industry. Under the settlement, Audiogalaxy is required to obtain permission or consent from a...
[June 18, 2002, 9:30]
Audiogalaxy in RIAA crosshairs
News The Recording Industry Association of America on Friday filed a copyright lawsuit against Audiogalaxy, adding another front to the industry's legal battles against post-Napster file-swapping services.
[May 27, 2002, 6:43]
MP3 fans find a new star
News Disappointed with Napster's decision to filter popular songs from its file-swapping network, Jonathan Lemon recently turned to Audiogalaxy, a relatively new alternative for free music downloads that is winning a lot of converts.
[June 15, 2001, 8:49]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
Talkback To be honest I downloaded a whole load of music in the good old audiogalaxy days, when you could get what you wanted easily. I would like to salute the site for putting me in contact with alternative music I never knew the name of.
[March 30, 2004, 22:14]
OpenAG X
Downloads OpenAG/OpenAG X is an unofficial unix/MacOS X client for the AudioGalaxy File Sharing System. OpenAG focuses on speed and portablity, boasting the fastest connections and downloads of any satellite. OpenAG is available as Aqua app, command line app...
[April 22, 2002, 8:00]
Malware Sweeper Free
Downloads Removes Bundled spyware components from Kazaa, Morpheus, audiogalaxy, grokster, Limewire, Imesh, Gnutella and more than 1,000 other programs. Scan and safely remove Adware, SpyWare, Key Loggers, Trojans, Dialers, Hijackers, malware, Thiefware, Big...
[July 3, 2006, 13:10]
Spyware company goes undercover
News VX2's Sputnik program is currently incorporated into a free screensaver download for the Internet advertising company Aadcom, and has been used by file-sharing services such as AudioGalaxy. A US-based spyware developer appears to have taken down...
[January 31, 2002, 9:37]
Beware of Gator bug
News Gator, which has been downloaded by more than 10 million people, runs in the backdrop of a Web browser and is often bundled with popular file-sharing programs such as AudioGalaxy. Gator, a popular application that fills in Web site passwords and...
[February 25, 2002, 10:38]
MP3 use goes BOOM - part 2
News MP3 hunters tend to use more specialised search engines like scour.net, audiogalaxy (audiogalaxy.com), filequest (filequest.com) and oth.net (oth.net) that home in on the music they want to download. As home to Silicon Valley, Northern California...
[June 15, 1999, 13:37]
Thong-wearing squash player scores on Google
News Jack lemmon", who died last week, and "audiogalaxy" -- a digital song-swapping site -- also made it onto the "top ten gaining queries" list. Google has been inundated by users who want to learn more about Vicky Botwright, the UK squash player...
[July 9, 2001, 16:28]
Napster court case throttles file sharing
News Peer-to-peer sites Musiccity Morpheus and Audiogalaxy attracted in turn 2.2 percent and 3.0 percent. The number of people actively sharing files over the Internet using peer-to-peer systems has almost halved since Napster -- one of the most popular...
[October 29, 2001, 14:04]
Outage points to depth of P2P arsenal
News Download.com reported strong interest in second-tier services last week, including 382,000 downloads for iMesh; 214,487 for BearShare; 205,274 for LimeWire; 161,152 for Grokster; and 105,339 for Audiogalaxy.
[March 7, 2002, 9:11]
Digital music focuses on fight over keys
News However, it's not clear whether consumers would pay for music on these services, choosing instead to freely swap files through Gnutella or one of the numerous Napster-like upstarts, such as Audiogalaxy.
[June 25, 2001, 12:49]
RIAA: We'll smother song swappers
News It would have given them the incentive to employ lots of hackers trying to figure out how to stop (MusicCity), Morpheus or Audiogalaxy. The recording industry is experimenting with new technology it hopes can smother online song swapping by...
[October 17, 2001, 9:37]
The record labels' new target: users
News The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has successfully sued Napster and Audiogalaxy; it is continuing lawsuits against Madster (formerly known as Aimster), StreamCast Networks, Grokster and the company that created Kazaa.
[July 4, 2002, 8:12]
What's hidden in your hard drive?
News PC invasion has become the hidden cost of free software such as Kazaa and Audiogalaxy, programs that allow people to share digital music and other files online. Audiogalaxy, which bundles Gator with its software, includes a separate screen during...
[April 18, 2002, 15:48]
BitTorrent is dead. Long live BitTorrent?
News The shifting loyalties are now a familiar phenomenon in the peer-to-peer world, as lawsuits from the record industry or Hollywood studios have repeatedly driven users away from other once-popular networks such as Napster, Scour and Audiogalaxy.
[January 5, 2005, 15:15]
Music industry sounds off on CD burning
News In addition, the industry has filed lawsuits targeting peer-to-peer file-swapping services including Audiogalaxy and the distributors of Morpheus, Kazaa and Grokster. CD burning contributed to a surge in music piracy across the globe in 2001, with...
[June 12, 2002, 12:22]
Napster buyout blocked
News The record industry has had other victories since the closure of Napster's service in July 2001, including recent successes in persuading the Napster-like Audiogalaxy to block swapping of copyrighted material and forcing the closure of China-based...
[September 4, 2002, 7:36]
