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Info = Spam?
The Information about Live365 seems more like spam to me then a detailed history of live365. Perhaps the person who wrote it should sit down and tell us The founding creators name, a little bit about his past and shareholders or other forms of history. When I read the information about live365 on Misplaced Pages, it almost seemed like a brochure of some kind. Please, What is the name or names of the people who started it. How did they create the company and how has it evolved. Thats what Misplaced Pages is all about.
And I'm not singling live365 out. I have come across other online services that have done the same thing. Just advertisments instead of a detailed history. I could have read this information of their own faq sheet. Im not sure where this post will go, but I created it for all to see. feedback if you like.
I just added some more about the history of Live365 and when Live365 began and what not. I was a user on Live365 since December 2000 and remember the good old days :-) - NetRadioGuy
live 365 and Ad-Aware
Does anyone know anything about why when I run Ad-Aware, live365.com shows up as a "Critical object" , showing live365 as spyware!
I had the same spyware experience. It looks like my wife picked up a tracking cookie from Live365 so I googled it and ended up here. It looks like they rely on advertising to some extent so I guess they could have placed the cookie except that my wife, who works from her own logon, is an internet novice and it is very unlikely that she knows anything about Live365 either. We both stick pretty much to known sites for shopping, don't open spams or e-mail from people we don't know. I sure would like to know the answer to this one.
What Adaware is detecting is a tracking cookie placed by Live 365. Here's my experience, which may explain yours. My default browser is Firefox. Live 365 has no plugin for Firefox, which has 10% browser usage in the US and higher in Europe. Firefox users are forced to install an Internet Explorer tab to use Live 365. After filling out the requisite forms, receiving the requisite email link, etc. I discovered that it was necessary to loosen the cookie control I still use on IE. The best way to prevent installation of tracking cookies is to use cookie control, easily accessible w/ Firefox, not so easily but still accessible w/ IE. Live 365 doesn't allow use of cookie control--it demands that users set their browsers to accept all cookies. Unfortunately I won't be using Live 365. Please note that Real Player is cleverer. Their tracking cookie circumvents even Firefox cookie control. Further commentary on either media player beggars polite language.--Tapered --75.62.7.189 01:00, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Considered to Be Deleted
I am considering to delete this page since it can be viewed as an Advertisement. Second, an employee of Live365 has changed the neutral viewing of the article. Liradio 01:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
I think that with some work, the page can easily be edited so that it is purely informative.
Deletion would set a bad precedent....
My thoughts: Deletion of an article about Live365 would be outright irresponsible. Live365 is not just a notable service in its own right, but it has been historically significant to the overall evolution of Internet radio. Live365 is currently one of the highest PR sites of any Internet radio network -- including SHOUTcast. Furthermore, Live365 continues to be placed in Arbitron's online radio ratings panels alongside only a handful of other major industry players like LAUNCHcast and AOL Radio. Also, I recall Live365's CEO being instrumental on more than a few occasions advocating for the Webcasting industry as a whole -- including presenting testimony to the U.S. Congress about legal issues facing the online radio community. Truth be told, as I write this there are Misplaced Pages articles for Mercora, SomaFM, and a few other far less significant multi-channel Webcasters that should be tagged for speedy deletion if this article about Live365 is every again considered for removal. --SWCastNetwork 08:06, 3 March 2007 (UTC)