As of April 9th 2002, Audiogalaxy has finally caught on to the only remaining loophole for getting around the infamous 
blocked songs: the song sending function. Audiogalaxy web site features groups, whose members often share a common musical preference and can send the songs they share to each other. Due to an oversight on Audiogalaxy’s part its users have been able to send any song by substituting that particular song’s ID, which is easily viewable in many links on Audiogalaxy’s pages. As of now they perform a check to see if the song you’re trying to send is really in your shared directory.
After this “secret trick” recently surfaced on Audiogalaxy’s message boards, it suffered the same fate as two similar evasive maneouvers about half a year ago. This proves once again the inherent vulnerability of a centralized system: a single point of failure. It will give the Gnutella, Fasttrack, WinMX and OpenNap networks more new users. Their decentralized concept ultimatively proves more resistent to outside interference.
Don’t get me wrong, Audiogalaxy is still invaluable for the collectors of rare, little-known or obscure music, and its two-part concept (stationary file agent combined with remote, web-based administration) is still unsurpassed. However, it has just lost a little more of its general appeal.
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