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Wow, that's a disaster. Hopefully it was a wake-up call to the Shoutcast administrators to not depend on 10+ year old software that doesn't follow actual standa

• kuschku 10y ago
  You mean, you expect tenthousands of broadcasters, with millions of users, to switch their systems over, because some people at Google decided that they should control the web? It's very questionable that such a move can even be made without a discussion in one of the web standards groups, and can be made entirely by Google employees. In the long term, changing this is unavoidable, but without warning, and without discussion, deprecating a widely used standard is not exactly awesome. You'd expect such a change to require discussion in standards groups, months of warnings before it happens, etc
  • Chronos 10y ago
    Anyone who depends on the Internet for their business should know better than to run 10 year old unpatched Internet server software.
    • kuschku 10y ago
      You mean, a 10 year old, unpatched protocol. You don't know the actual software running behind it, and how they might have modified it. And just deprecating an entire category of protocols still in use without Google even sending an email as warning to the servers that still use it, well, that’s insane.