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Requiem For The Record Store

Posted by timothy on from the and-for-washpost-stories dept.

Rick Zeman writes "The Washington Post has an article (minimal registration required) in which record stores ('Daddy, what's a record?') are preparing for their own demises. They attribute this to the big box stores (Best Buy, etc), online retailers (Amazon, etc) and, you guessed it, downloading, both illegal and legal. 'The fat lady is warming up, but she's not exactly singing,' says one retailer, knowing that he still has a few more years until his business is totally moribund." Get it while it's hot -- soon, the Washington Post is switching to a more annoying registration system.

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  1. Who reads the WP Anyway? by luigi22_ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think it's pretty good that non-digital formats are dying out, but we have to worry about hyper-DRM and the ever-annoying DMCA. This will annoy everyone and make some switch to P2P. In the end though, when KaZaA is shut down, we'll still have IRC, so I'm not worried.

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  2. annoying registration by nembot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    time to start a "no more" washington post articles! a pre-emptive strike (or is that a decapitation strike?)

  3. Re:interesting enough... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All those links prove you are a slashwhore.

  4. Re:Good idea/Bad idea? by dfenstrate · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    nah. as long as they comply when they get a dmca notification to delete it, slashdot is fine.

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  5. Re:supply a bogus address by wash23 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Until I read the post article on new registration requirements, I thought I was the only one using 90210 as my fake zip code ;)