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I mean that if they come to the party by somehow enabling us to export the forums database or something, and/or allow us to keep using the existing URL, then this whole start-Vanilla-from-scratch malarky could go right out the window.

I would expect the opposite. That they tell you can't use their trademarks and stop you from calling anything Winamp or Nullsoft. That they object to the mirroring of their old webs. That they prohibit you from distributing the binary, documentation or anything else.

My guess as to how this plays out unless somebody buys it.......

Just because they are shutting services down doesn't mean AOL has vacated it's trademarks or copyrights. I could think of a dozen scenarios where AOL shuts you down.

Maybe it needs a name like web-a-roni or something to capture the spirit of the webcasters and DJ's known to skulk around here. But I think if you embed yourself in Winamp branding, you're asking for it.

If I owned these trademarks, I wouldn't let you use them. I'm likely nicer than AOL. I'd probably insist people didn't distribute the binary, if only for the fact that this will be "out in the wild" getting packed with viruses. Does that hurt a trademark I might want to sell or resurrect?

If you're gonna do this, I think it need a more generic webcasting theme. It's gonna need it's own art and it's own name.