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Ruckus shuts down, citing insufficient ad revenue

Written by Omar Carrillo, Staff Writer
Published: Monday, February 9th, 2009
For avid music fans, Ruckus’ demise has failed to leave a substantial void in the world of legal music downloading.

Before Friday, the service provided subscribers with an unlimited number of free music downloads. Now, the company’s website merely ...

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  • 7:52 a.m. on Feb. 9th, 2009
    Posted by
    sad 08

    tragic news...

  • 4:49 p.m. on Feb. 9th, 2009
    Posted by
    10

    Is the USG going to do something about this?

  • 7:06 p.m. on Feb. 9th, 2009
    Posted by
    Jack

    Uhh...no one cared about Ruckus.

  • 8:28 p.m. on Feb. 9th, 2009
    Posted by
    Anonymous

    i cared! i'm going to have to make the hike to the public library for music now. lame.

    connor dy, get us another downloading website!!!

  • 9:55 p.m. on Feb. 9th, 2009
    Posted by
    p10

    www.spiralfrog.com

    Basically the same thing as ruckus, except anyone can use it (although the selection is a bit worse)

  • 6:54 a.m. on Feb. 10th, 2009
    Posted by
    not so sad anymore 08

    solution: change the date on your computer back and songs on your ruckus player, even with expired licenses, will work. if you don't want to be continually changing your computer's date, set it to today's day and month 1981, as that is the most recent year with the exact same dates and days of the week.

    PS: if you don't use webmail, you may want to experiment around to make sure that emails you send are dated right

  • 10:35 a.m. on Feb. 10th, 2009
    Posted by
    pissedatprinceton

    ruckus was a great service except that they violated the rights of millions by drm protecting their songs. after little research i found that drm protection in fact violates fair use media rights because it is legal to use a "drm stripping" program to convert songs for YOUR OWN use... so for this site to say that programs that strip this protection are illegal is bullshit.

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