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How to Turn A Music Lover to Piracy
dugn writes to tell us The Consumerist is running a story about how a run of the mill (read non-tech-savvy) music lover was pushed to become a pirate. "I've devoted a not-inconsequential chunk of my life to collecting music; to tracking down obscure records, cassettes, 8-Tracks and CD's of all genres and styles. And now apparently that is all but over. Music has somehow evolved from tangible things into amorphous collections of 1's and 0's guarded over by interested parties as if they were gold bullion. How so very sad."
Life needs more saving throws.
Piracy allows me to have questionable taste in music ;)
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The earth is only 6000 years old, Bob.
Ever heard of a bard? Geez. It's like you've never read a fantasy novel before...
-matthew
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
[piracy] has allowed me to listen to bubblegum pop without the scornful looks of music store clerks and no embarrassing CDs to hide when friends stop over.
"Dude, is that an ABBA directory I see on your filesystem?"
"Uh, no, uh, that's, um... where I hide my pr0n"
"Cool."
I'd say before bringing up religion, that most music around the world in the past has either been about getting laid or not getting laid, just like nowadays.
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I'm sure someone not so damn tired either auto translated (like loose/lose which this gent did (huzzah!)) or
figured it out quickly.
I did not.
Thought 1: three house? Three houses? Why go to three houses? Different internet connections?
Thought 2: Tree house? He has a tree house? WTF...makes no sense. Tree house are fun, tho.
Thought 3: Time? Three hours? Ah, makes sense now. Odd. Funny, but odd.
Thought 4: HEY, I'll be damned, the typed lose instead of loose! Wow, house/hours typo forgiven!
Thought 5: I need a nap.
Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
"How to Turn a Cheapskate Freeloader to Piracy"
Guess which article more people would relate to (or at least more accurately represent).
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
But I don't want to download that. I want to download Justin Timberlake.
Eh, Stone Zeppelin was little more than a ripoff of Neanderthal blues rock-beaters of a previous era, like Muddy Glacial-Ice and Howlin' Mammoth.
Momentarily, the need for the construction of new light will no longer exist.
The future isn't here until I can type "car keys" into Google and have it say "You left them in your pants last night."
I hope that block quote from the OED counts as fair use, or they'll send the Surgeon of Crowthorne to enforce their copyright!
It MAKES Me FEEL very important to Talk in ALTERNATING Caps, even if they DON'T maKE SeNsE to reaD. Sometimes I ALSO like to randomly italiCIZE Words As Well.
Your badly-written and incoherent ramblings just don't amount to much of anything other than uneducated, music snobbery. "Oooh, damn that Edison for recording music on a medium! He ruined it for everyone!" Fucktard.
The earth is only 6000 years old, Bob.
Maybe he means 15000 dog years. Then it would fit.
Qualitas edurus commercium, nullus penitus net rimor, nullus deus beneficium
I completely disagree with you.
It will be massively enjoyable to watch.
"We may face a scorched and lifeless earth, but they're accountable to their shareholders first."
Then there's no hope for you.
...Rob
The American Dream isn't an SUV and a house in the suburbs; it's Don't Tread On Me.
The DRM helps protect the file from illegal copying. However, as with any 'lock', hackers may break it. Those who knowingly tamper with DRM are acting illegally. They may even wear masks and possess secret identities. We discourage any attempt to defeat the copyright protection.
....No, the earth is about 6500 years old. It says so right in the Bible, so it must be true. All this billions-of-years-old stuff is a scheme concocted by the evil scientists.....
Actually, they are both right. It's just like is light particles or waves? It's both. To measure time you need a clock. There are two kinds of clocks we use. The one scientists use is run by the electronic forces that control the atoms and their particles. That's the one that governs your digital watch and radioactivity. The Bible uses the force that controls the motion of the earth, planets and galaxies, the force of gravity. Your grandfather's pendulum clock is timed by gravity.
The equations that govern the atomic forces ALL have a time value in them; that is they are contain certain "constants". There is no known law of physics that mandates that the actually remain constant. The equations that govern gravity, do NOT contain any constants. Gravity depends ONLY on mass and distance, nothing else.
The entire evolutionary belief system, masquerading as science, mandating billions of years, is based on the assumption (belief) that these constants truly are and always were constant as we measure them today. Even today, the atomic clock it drifting measurably slower against the gravity one. There is evidence that some of these so called constants may have changed by as much as a factor 300 million since the "big bang" event. There is an equivalence (nonlinear as most things in nature are) between the two time scales.
All theory is gray
"I am attempting, Madame, to construct a MP3 player using stone knives and bearskins." - Spock, Music City on the Edge of Forever
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Yes he would pay for a performance of said data. A recording is not a performance, and should not be construed as such. It is an ad, like a billboard promoting a performance. And we should get paid for distributing them :-)
What?