AMG just denied me entry into their site!

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I got this message:

"Through traffic monitoring of our websites we have identified your IP address accessing allmusic.com at a rate and speed inconsistent with the noncommercial and personal use permitted by our site's Terms of Service. As a result, further access to allmusic.com has been denied. Because IP addresses can be shared by numerous users, your access may be being denied based on the aggregate use of your IP address rather than your own individual use. To ensure that this is not the case, simply create your own individual user account by becoming a Registered Member of allmusic. [Click on the “Register” button in the upper right hand corner of the home page.] Once you’ve become a Registered Member and are logged in, you will once again have full access to allmusic, and will continue to have access, as long as your usage remains consistent with our Terms of Service. If you are already a Registered Member of allmusic, simply ensure that you are logged in when you use the site. Thank you."

Uhh... I visit the site a few times a day, maybe, but not like a fiend or anything. Think this is just a ploy to make people actually use their login system?

Steev (Steev), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

It does that for me as well from time to time. Just wait a sec or reload, it'll go away.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf, that's weird. i registered, tho. it wasn't too painful, and it's worth it for me to get chart data.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I reloaded and it went away. I just found that sort of... scary?

Steev (Steev), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

this has happened to me recently too. I have google accelerator installed and I do lots of middle clicking.

a banana (alanbanana), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

it never sticks when i login, which makes it extra annoying when i get booted or when i want to look at one of the login-required features. hmph.

Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Set your browser to allow cookies from AMG. Then it shouldn't log you out.

buck van morrison (Buck Van Smack), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

All you have to do is go some place out or refresh and you can get around registering with that place. It is just a bunch of bullshit but they want to monitor that site for some reason, might have to do with $.

BeeOK (boo radley), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i know how cookies work but for some reason that one just don't take.

Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

It does it to me too, and while I use the site every couple of months it's hardly "inconsistent with the noncommercial and personal use permitted by [AMG's] Terms of Service".

D.G. Jones (D.G. Jones), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

haha i just got this too

to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)


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