AOL and shoutcast internet radio

AOL has fucked up shoutcast, making it unaccessable.  I say boycott Amerika Online and devest in them.  In other words, kill their bottom line: $$$.

"There have been a couple threads about Shoutcast either not working or gone from either Streamtuner or VLC. When it quit working in Streamtuner I just switched to VLC to access the Shoutcast listing now since VLC has been updated to ver. 1.1.0 no more Shoutcast. Went to the VLC site after a quick google search and found this AOL Corporation is hindering Open Source Software check out the link as ...
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Other posts in this thread: Reply 1: Re: Shoutcast disappearance solved...  stevea replied 8 months ago Yes it's a known and real problem. Sad - I used to listen to a lot of shoutcast. There used to be some tricks to install the sc plugin into amarok, but I think they are gone now. Once again AOL proves they keep their heads where the sun don't shine."

"Being the one that wrote this article and press release, maybe I can help people understanding the issue.

Basically, AOL send us a mail last summer asking us to ask for an API key for their new API, and the license was just fuckingly amazingly blocking for everything related to open source. More detail can be asked, if needed.

So anyway, 1.0.0 was just out, so it was quite impossible to comply, since people would be able to use the shoutcast plugin from 1.0.0 in all 1.0.x versions of VLC, since we keep modules API/ABI during a whole cycle. Therefore useless...

So, we waited for the 1.1.0 release to remove the module. And make a fuss about it. Of course, we could have talked to them before, but of course, nothing would have happened then, since big corporation only care about bad press... And moreover, the license was so fking blocking that we didn't even see where the point was.

Finally, we have a complete extensions framework which means that now people can write their own scripts in lua to do exactly the same, without asking us :D

I hope this explains a bit more, don't hesitate to contact me if you want a bit more than a "funny" press release..."