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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. HOw about this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Check me out I am the number one all you are losers this is incredible.

  2. Re:What's a Pirate in This Context by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    thanks for the tip earlier on mytuneslive.com which is a licensed company that is allowed to stream music over the net.

    I see more websites like mytuneslive.com popping up, as long as the record companies don't try and shut them out or make licensing fees more expensive. There is a huge trend here forming I think.

  3. And now correction of moderation by drinkypoo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Could someone please explain how a criticism of a comment which is ontopic is somehow offtopic? And could someone please explain why the mismanagement staff of slashdot feels moderation is working?

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