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


    For Fifteen THOUSAND Years

    The earth is only 6000 years old, Bob.

  3. 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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  4. 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.

  5. 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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