Soulseek still down

sunspots

Anyone else getting the
"Forbidden
You do not have permission to access the requested file on this server." message when accessing
http://www.remmelt.com/slskboard/status.php and
http://www.remmelt.com/slskboard/.
To see when soulseek will be back up?
However i wouldnt listen to the rumours that are spreading on various chatsites about how WinMx and Soulseek etc are being sued and have to block stuff. Not seen any official confirmation on news sites.
I think trouble makers or idiots have jumped to conclusions after several messages have appeared on slsk at startup about not downloading certain artists because they have asked you not to. Its not been anyone that anyone has ever heard of.
But if anyone has seen anything about why slsk is down please post here.
Thank you.

I am getting the same. Maybe the server ran out of gas...

http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=7131
http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=7132
maybe this will help? never used soulseek myself. It seems some guys on zeropaid.com dont like soulseek because its centralized (whatever that means)

anyone know anything about soulseek not working ive never had this happen i love soulseek for the underground music any other alternatives??? has this happened before for? ive been on about 2 months? thanks jaxxs

SLSK will be back on-I think he has taken it down for service. The connections have been spotty recently due to many people being on the system-the RIAA has not killed SLSK.

from what I understand slsk is waaay down the RIAA's lists of priorities, and in any case it wouldn't lead to the site being down (audiogalaxy's site still exists). I'm pretty sure it's just being updated.

I concur James.

jaxxs, it used to happen tons, it was down for ages over christmas 01 and outages for a few hours up to a couple of days are still fairly common, so seeing hysterical posts after 12 hours when these threads started seemed a bit much, but it is worrying that not only has the server gone but both official domains are down too and the permissions changed to unreadable on remmelt's domains (not even just the messageboard, but his personal site too). word is the board owner's away and it's probably just been pulled by his isp for too much bandwidth without him even knowing, and meanwhile the main server is being moved to new hosting and should be back in a couple of days, so hopefully it's all ok.

centralized = there is only one server and even when there were a handful of other experimental servers the server list had to be downloaded from one single place online which was hardwritten into the app (this code is still in there, btw, which is I think what previous patches have done - they've overwritten the code pointing at a server list via http or they've changed your hosts file to resolve the domain name to another ip address, so if the server itself is down or the file can't be hosted elsewhere it can't be patched in this way). it all depends on one server being there, you can't start your own server, and there aren't multiple servers (either with different files like a directconnect hub or sharing the same information in an irc-style network), which would all make it very easy to shut down. also the author is based in the US and is not at all anonymous, there's no offshore business account somewhere with more lax rules about this kind of thing. so it's shaky legally and prone to this sort of thing, which I guess is what the zeropaid people dislike.

what messages at startup are these? or do you just mean the owner's recommendation of the ulrich schnauss album, which he then says is well worth buying and not just leeching because it's a fairly low-profile release on a small label and deserves your money? a stretch to read riaa hounding into that. if not, heh, i missed those, is this the sequel to the unauthorised "goodbye soulseek" allusers message that caused a row a while ago?

Isn't the server based out of Europe anyways?

sunspots
In the house of late scape goats.

Glad to see I'm not the only one getting this 'forbidden' message. I thought for a minute I'd been banned for calling another user a wanker (because he wasn't sharing his files).

I've only had one message asking me not to download somebody's music; apparently some woman was complaining bitterly to Nir because hers was a small lable and she wasn't getting many sales anyway.

Here's hoping the twats at the RIAA haven't got anything to do with the shutdown...

my next question is who do i use for undergound stuff? anyone know of any ?? tahnks again jaxxss

taken from the unofficial slsk faq:

"4th February 2003 - The server (& website) are offline temporarily. As I understand it, normal service will be resumed in a couple of days time, after the server has been moved. Don't panic."

Is Soulseek down for anyone else? I'm trying to work out whether it is or whether I've just been blocked from using it at work.

Working fine here...

It went down for me for a bit last night, but then got back up again. < /chumbawumba>

it's fine here.

Ah well, probably work then. Fair do's I suppose!