# Did audiogalaxy crap out?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-audiogalaxy-crap-out/117211>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 3, 2002, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-audiogalaxy-crap-out/117211 "2002-07-03T16:32:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Chekmate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@Chekmate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chekmate)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-audiogalaxy-crap-out/117211/1 "2002-07-03T16:32:41Z")

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What happened? I can’t download music anymore?! WHAAA!!!

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**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-audiogalaxy-crap-out/117211/2 "2002-07-03T16:47:26Z")

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They’ve reached an agreement with the music industry stating they’ll only make songs available after getting permit to do so from the copyright owner.  
Not a real shutdown of the platform, but of course it devaluates Audiogalaxy a lot.

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid\_2051000/2051266.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2051000/2051266.stm)

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**Author:** ![BrandonR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-audiogalaxy-crap-out/117211/3 "2002-07-03T18:27:42Z")

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And another one bites the dust.

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**Author:** ![mr.greg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@mr.greg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.greg)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-audiogalaxy-crap-out/117211/4 "2002-07-03T18:41:42Z")

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I found a pretty good alternative to Audiogalaxy

go to [kazaalite.com](http://kazaalite.com) and download the client. it’s a pretty good p2p tool

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**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-audiogalaxy-crap-out/117211/5 "2002-07-03T19:21:41Z")

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Yupp, I cannot but agree with **mr.greg**. That’s truly great.