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How to Turn A Music Lover to Piracy

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the self-defeating-drm dept.

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."

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  1. ROFL by Grashnak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well" she responded, "You didn't actually purchase the files, you really purchased a license to listen to the music, and the license is very specific about how they can be played or listened to." Now I was baffled. "Records never came with any such restrictions," I said. She replied, "Well they were supposed to, but we weren't able to enforce those licenses back then, and now we can" And here you all thought that you owned all those 8 track tapes, when in fact you're just storing them for the company that made them.
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  2. Re:Piracy = Freedom by illeism · · Score: 4, Funny

    Piracy allows me to have questionable taste in music ;)

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  3. Re:hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    For Fifteen THOUSAND Years

    The earth is only 6000 years old, Bob.

  4. Re:Piracy = Freedom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    [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."

  5. Respectfully disagree by aztec+rain+god · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  6. Re:hmmm... by edmicman · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I don't want to download that. I want to download Justin Timberlake.

  7. Re:hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  8. Re:hmmm... by cptgrudge · · Score: 4, Funny

    The earth is only 6000 years old, Bob.

    Maybe he means 15000 dog years. Then it would fit.

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  9. Re:That sound that you hear faintly in the backgro by FunWithKnives · · Score: 5, Funny

    I completely disagree with you.

    It will be massively enjoyable to watch.

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  10. Re:hmmm... by rbochan · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...I want to download Justin Timberlake.

    Then there's no hope for you.

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  11. Re:hmmm... by kindbud · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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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  12. Re:hmmm... by iminplaya · · Score: 3, Funny

    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 :-)

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