# What happened to Audio Galaxy?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-audio-galaxy/117033>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 2, 2002, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-audio-galaxy/117033 "2002-07-02T15:06:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Omnipresent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@Omnipresent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnipresent)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-audio-galaxy/117033/1 "2002-07-02T15:06:33Z")

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OK, this is BS!!! What happened to Audio Galaxy?

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**Author:** ![evilhanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba8739/32.png) [@evilhanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilhanz)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-audio-galaxy/117033/2 "2002-07-02T15:09:59Z")

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Did you try searching first - or checking the audiogalaxy bulletin boards? I found a link to a news article in 10 seconds. There was a pointer to this article [Audiogalaxy to ask first, trade late](http://news.com.com/2100-1023-936932.html):

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> Audiogalaxy reached a legal settlement with the recording industry Monday, agreeing to obtain permission before allowing people to swap copyrighted songs through its popular file-trading service.
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> The agreement halted song trades on the service Monday night. Searches conducted by CNET [News.com](http://News.com) for tunes by musicians including Lauryn Hill, Marvin Gaye and James Brown returned no results or an error message saying “search prohibited.”