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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. Urestricted records. by serial_crusher · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Now I was baffled. 'Records never came with any such restrictions,' I said." Last time I tried to play my record in a CD player.... that didn't go so well. Next time, RTFM before buying the stuff and see if it will play in your equipment or not.

  2. Steal It! Ha Ha! Steal It All! by CranberryKing · · Score: -1, Troll

    I love music now, because it's all free! And I can STEAL IT! HA HA! I Love to Steal Things! Rip off the World!

    I want to steal MORE things! Ha ha.. STEAL IT ALL!!

  3. Re:hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    so when I've got CmdrTaco bent over the arm of the couch and make him grunt with each thrust of my rock hard cock into his backside, what you're saying is: I'm playing him like an instrument?

    interesting...

  4. Re:hmmm... by c6gunner · · Score: 0, Troll

    (the way Cuba, a world leader in medicine does)
    HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH

    oh....my...*snort*....God....

    Thanks a lot you bastard. Now who's gonna clean all this Coke off of my monitor??

    Seriously, up to that point I was actually considering some of what you had to say...but WOW. You're a right nutter, eh?