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CDs May be Less Immortal than We Thought
Zordak writes "The near-immortality of CDs, sometimes used as an excuse by record companies as an argument for their high cost, may not be as eternal as touted. An article at CNN describes the problem of CD Rot rearing its head to deny you access to your music and data. The article also describes related problems with CD-Rs, CD-RWs and DVDs."
The dupes keep coming. Keep up the good work, CowboyNeal!
If this were a "real" news site like, say, GoogleNews, you would call it "informing me from several sources", not "why does this $%& Google News thing post so many dupes!!1!". Talk about selective perception. Just a thought.
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
Illegally ripping protection? Illegal? An example of an illegal act is murder. Violating an EULA is not illegal.
Sorry, wording like that pisses me off. It's not a crime to rape/murder* YOUR files. (Maybe breach of contract, but if they want to sue me over a $0.99 song, then whatever.)
* This is the RIAA's new term for listening to music. Additionally, it refers to stripping the DRM out of a file. (How is playing a file to another file any different than playing it to a speaker?)
My other car is first.
According to Apple's site you can write songs an unlimited amount of times.
And Apple should know, the Beatles got away with this repetative song stuff for fifteen years.