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Home Stereo Equipment With Online Music Purchasing
nebulous bee writes "Yahoo is reporting on a new piece of home stereo equipment going on sale in Japan that has an ethernet port that can be linked directly to an online music store. You can purchase new music using the unit's built-in LCD display and hear it 'instantly'. No PC required. There are no plans to sell it yet outside of the land of the rising sun."
Else, oh no, someone might make a copy of the music they purchased for themselves.
For some reason, having my stereo hooked up to the net buying songs seems just a little too close to pay-per-use than I'm comfortable with.
Now when this piece of hardware breaks I lose my entire music collection? No Thanks!
I guess this is what we are going to in the near future, all of our appliances will have some sort of computer inside them, a computer that's capable of doing what the appliance needs. /. story about a refrigerator that allows you to buy groceries online, it's just a matter of time.
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The IT section color scheme sucks.
It's called an iPod. Just add a $2 stereo Y cable from any old electronics store and it plugs into every rack system known to man.
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Don't bother going to college. In fact, if you're in school drop out now regardless of your grade level. If you have kids, pull them out or don't send them to school to begin with. There is after all, no value in any of the information that will be learned.
All jobs are based on information and experience, even McDonalds' fry cooks. Economies give a society order. If you want to promote your utopia, figure out a logical argument that will pursuade the people. Until them, I will consider your theory illogical and continue purchasing information I consider valuable.
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Your right, why pay for it when I can simply jump on a p2p network, download a file, realize that it's only half the song, download another file , realize that it's a virus, download another file, verify that it's the correct song, startup my CD Burning software, burn it to a CD and finally play it in my stereo.
OR... just pay the 2 bucks, download it and play it on my stereo.
You can purchase new music using the unit's built-in LCD display and hear it 'instantly'. No PC required.
It's always amazed me how high tech gadgets are marketed as being "not computers" when that's exactly what they are! Things like the "Earthlink Mailstation" that allows you to "check your e-mail without a computer". I'm pretty sure I've even seen advertizing for TiVo claiming that it wasn't a "computer". Amazingly, Joe Blow consumers seem to not even think of gaming consoles as computing devices! I realize that this is done so as not to scare away the technilogically illiterate, but I still reserve the right to incredulity every time these claims are made! Seriously, without computing technology how do people think these things work? Little men with pointy shoes and long beards reaching to their knees inside the case?
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
I'm not making any argument that file swapping of restricted music doesn't violate copyright law, it almost surely does.
The argument I'm making is that the copyright cartels are hiding behind copyright law, to protect their outdated business models.
You were the one that talked about "compensating the artist". If you truely care about compensating artists, you will do whatever you can to drive the copyright cartels into bankruptcy, even if that involves breaking a few laws.
Inevitably, those who usher in change do things that are illegal. Very few major social changes happen completely within the system. When the public, and the leaders, can no longer rationally defend an intolerable law, that is selectively enforced because so many are breaking it, that's when change happens.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
If you pay good money for a service that ends up not meeting your expectations, complain about it, then continue to subscribe to said service... then you are an idiot. You raise one fist in anger while forking over your cash with the other. Not a very potent message.
Now, I don't agree that you should not be able to download music you've purchased as often as you'd like, but as a consumer, it is not my decision. Nor is it yours. Our choice is simply to give them our money or not. I choose not to, as I prefer to have a little more control over what I do with what I purchase, even if that means making a backup of a CD I bought at the local music shop and burying the original in a nice big hole in the backyard. What's your excuse?
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.