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#1
Posted 11 July 2004 - 08:34 PM
#2
Posted 12 July 2004 - 12:30 AM
#3
Posted 12 July 2004 - 03:09 AM
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Posted 12 July 2004 - 05:17 AM
#5
Posted 12 July 2004 - 06:31 AM
#6
Posted 12 July 2004 - 07:03 PM
For now I will stick with the drive to Best Buy and getting the actual CD, I like the little booklets that have pictures and lyrics anyways... cant get that from Itunes.
#7
Posted 13 July 2004 - 04:17 PM
#8
Posted 13 July 2004 - 04:35 PM
At least give me a warning about the spyware when I pop it in the cd-rom drive and give me an option of either accepting the spyware or just not play the CD in my computer.
Whats next... buy a CD and get spyware that reports to the music industry all your internet activity... so that they can see if your uploading songs onto a P2P network?
#9
Posted 14 July 2004 - 06:17 AM
I personally think they have a right to protect their interests, even if this means installing spyware. The share volume of mp3 trading has really left them no choice but to take drastic action. Sad state of affairs really. Just my two cents worth.
I always disable autorun when inserting music cds in my computer, force of habit.
#10
Posted 14 July 2004 - 07:06 AM
since they are a dollar (88cents at wal-mart.com)
people still want to avoid paying.
them installing software on computers without permission is insane and should be punished by lawsuit.
#11
Posted 14 July 2004 - 07:39 AM
This is the attitude that allows them to do what they do, I haven't bought a cd in a couple of years, and I haven't downloaded anything either, in my opinion no ones putting anything out worth listening to, but they never mention the lack of talent or music worth listening too as the culprit, well except for country music sales jumped 11% this year hmmmm, seems p2p hasn't affected that. I guess you don't care that you can't make a simple transfer to an ipod or other type of mp3 player, they don't have the right to install anything on MY private property without my permission I mean even police have to give you your miranda warnings before they can talk to you about a crime they think you committed, and now you say it's ok for them to put what they want on MY computer without MY permission, there should be al sorts of warning on a protected cd, how is it protected and with what, what are the limitations of this cd I plan to purchase, I have the right to know the information before I decide to make that purchase, at least this. They don't want to tell you it's protected because if they do and you can't transfer to an mp3 player then they know you won't buy the cd, it is them who brought on the onslaught of the p2p trading, they started this mess by not informing their bread and butter us the consumer, they are too busy trying to make us the criminal rather than figure out a workable solution, and we all know they already have them, the problem is the RIAA has no control over them and they really hate that.
#12
Posted 14 July 2004 - 05:58 PM
Well stated my friend... I do not believe P2P is the main reason for sales dropping.
Yes they have a right to protect their works, but it shouldn't interfere with normal operation or have to install spyware on my computer. Who is to stop them from taking another drastic step that can be alot worse than this.
All I can say is that they are losing alot of customers doing this and will have nobody but themselves to blame when people just stop buying music completely.
#13
Posted 14 July 2004 - 10:35 PM
I do disagree with fishyfool regarding the cost of MP3's. I think $1/song is not unreasonable. It's approximately what you pay for an entire album of songs after all, and this way you can pick and choose what songs you want. The only downside is, they encode them at 128Kbit instead of 192Kbit, which means less quality. Mind you, I don't listen to mainstream music anyway. I only listen to Christian music. But in general, I have my opinions regarding the subject and this is just my 2 cents worth.
#14
Posted 15 July 2004 - 02:18 AM
#15
Posted 15 July 2004 - 03:41 AM
No disrespect Jito, but I had you figured all wrong. I used to be in that phase, but there was not enough heavy metal christian rock groups out there to create new songs so I had to switch. Now I am into a need to find heavy metal Taoist music
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Posted 15 July 2004 - 07:36 AM
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Posted 22 July 2004 - 10:44 AM
#18
Posted 22 July 2004 - 05:36 PM
Thats great, I could soon be following that path.
I think I am going to just stop buying music alltogether... I don't listen to/buy much music anyway.
#19
Posted 25 July 2004 - 06:38 AM
#20
Posted 25 July 2004 - 08:16 AM
It's the same thing with games. When you buy a game, all you're buying is a licence to play the game, not the rights to the game, which is how they get away with copy protecting their games so we can't make backups (not easily anyway, and definitely not without some other software like Alcohol).
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