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EMI Promises Downloadable Music

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the working-with-technology-rather-than-against-it dept.

SataiCam writes "The Economist has an article up referring to EMI's plans to implement digital music downloading starting on December 1 through a whole host of 'distributors'. They claim it will allow users to get music in 'the formats they are demanding' (ogg?), to burn copies of songs, and download them to other devices. Here's the press release from EMI."

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  1. this is gonna work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    not!

    Keep music free, fight the power!

  2. Re:It had to happen. by Zordak · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    that doesn't mean that you have to use wildly inaccurate numbers to justify your claims.
    If you want to be taken seriously, you should remember that trying to disprove what you consider an exaggeration with an truly gross exaggeration simply makes you look uneducated, illogical and narrow-minded. First, your observation that "half the CDs people own are illegally burned," even if true, is most likely limited to peers you interact with regularly. Since you are a Slashdot reader, we shall presume for the moment that you consider yourself technically adept, which implies that your friends are most likely of a similar demographic. This is a self-selecting poll, because those you are polling (your friends), are the group most likely to pirate music. Second, even if 100% of high shool students pirate music (they don't -- I have younger siblings in high school, and they do not pirate music), your assertion that high school students alone "push that figure to 25-30%" of the general population relies upon the ludicrous assumption that high school students, between the ages of 14 and 18, comprise between one in every three and one in every four members of the general population.

    The parent poster does not use any hard evidence to support his assertion, but in terms of probability, his "wildly inaccurate" assertion of 1% is much more tenable than your much-inflated assertion of 25-30%. Next time, take a few moments to think before posting.

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  3. Re:my experience with emi by gazbo · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Ignoring wanton disregard for apostrophes and capitalisation, your post has 8 spelling mistakes (I may have missed some) out of 102 words (or so my test editor tells me) giving you a fantastic 7.8% retardation quotient.

    Maybe I should include grammar and see how it soars ever higher.