Because if you don't like most of the band's music, then you shouldn't be listening to their music
This has to be one of the most assinine things I've ever heard. So, I shouldn't listen to or buy Beethoven's 5th and 9th because I don't know anything about the rest of his music? I really like "Your Woman" by White Town, but I can't buy it because everything else on that album was crap? I should never listen to Frank Zappa again, despite the fact that part 1 of Joe's Garage is brilliant, because parts 2 & 3 were so awful?
What a stupid idea. Good ideas should be rewarded. It doesn't matter if they're small ones, or big ones. And you know what? If I can buy just the tracks that I like, then I'm only rewarding the good ideas. Maybe that will be more helpful to induce artists to publish more good ideas, as opposed to the old system which has been show to bundle the bad with the good to everyone's detriment.
And burning a sucky 128 mbps file, ripping it, and recompressing it makes a SUCKIER sounding file.
Somehow I don't think kids that grew up recording songs from sucky FM radio on even SUCKIER cassette tapes are really going to give a shit about what a handful of zealot audiophiles think. That would be the "over 30" crowd, for you kids who never heard anything but CDs.
Every digital music device on the market today (with a smattering of minor exceptions) will play MP3. Burning a CD from iTunes and then ripping it back to MP3 is trivial. If you can't afford the media, get a CDRW. The whole rant is "you'll be locked into Apple's proprietary format!!!" and that's bullshit. Even if Apple *doesn't* provide a way to migrate forward, the aforementioned "work around" is very likely to be sufficient.
The DRM is exactly what the Music Industry specified.
Yeah, that's why the "work around" is so easy, because the Music Industry wants that to be possible. Riiiight.
I think there's a good reason your name is "BadAnalogyGuy". Can you say "you're not Sun's target market"? There are plenty of bloggers who aren't just some slashdot reader sitting in his parent's basement, but actually use real equipment in real datacenters and they're the ones Jonathan is probably trying to reach out to (can't read his mind after all). By all means, get the tool you need. Server class x86 systems are typically way louder than you'll want to play World of Warcroft on too.
Is anybody outside of this university's administration concerned about this?
Yes, plenty of quacks are out pounding this drum. In Oak Park, IL, there was a parent's group trying to get wifi banned in the junior high schools for exactly the same reason ("think of the CHILDREN!"). Whether you agree that Jr High kids *need* wifi or not, the argument that it's harmful to their health is pretty ridiculous, and the group was eventually stopped from having any influence. But not after weeks of editorializing and wild claims on their part in the local papers.
Of course you have to wonder if these people built faraday cages around their houses and cars, given their neighbors potential use of wifi and cordless phones, the prevalence of radio, cellular, broadcast tv, and other wireless waves.
Maybe they have mapped the locations of all the towers around and have made sure they live a maximum distance from all of them. Maybe they never take their children to Borders, McDonalds, or any of the couple dozen other businesses that have wifi. Maybe they don't use cellphones themselves.
I can set it so that when I plug it into the PC it shows up as a USB flash drive.
Yeah. That's how I transferred the MP3's from the lifedrive into the transflash card. I would have used my PC except my PC doesn't currently have an SD slot. As for the software, yeah, I have a copy of Media Player 10 too. Hello? The MP3's weren't recognized by the phone, and I don't think Verizon was sitting there saying "nope, we didn't authorize these".
My V635 is a perfectly capable MP3 player and also a very decent phone.
My a950 is a perfectly capable camera (for snapshots) and a decent phone, but I'll be damned if I can figure out why I'd want to pay even more just to be able to use the MP3 player capabilities. No, they don't bundle the cable, no I'm not paying airtime + >$1 per song to download them. It's stupid enough that the phone doesn't include any normal human being type ringtones.
So I have a question about this whole mess, having recently gotten a TF capable phone. I put a new TF card into my phone, then took it out, put it in the SD adapter, put it in my lifedrive, copied two MP3's to the "music" folder that my phone had created, and put it back into my phone.
Those were the "any" MP3's you refer to above.
They aren't seen by my phone. So clearly, your claims of technical ignorance and that "any" phone can play "any" MP3 are far overblown.
Obviously, there probably needs to be some other additional update to the phone for MP3's, but since Samsung doesn't see fit to include a USB cable with their phone, and Verizon does see fit to neuter the Bluetooth capabilities of all their phones, I'm not in a position to do it "the right way" to find out how to do it "my way".
Am I bitching about Verizon? Not really. This is a CELLPHONE for me, not an MP3 player, not anything else. And from that perspective, Verizon is the best of my options where I am at. But I was curious, and find it somewhat ironic that they market all the amazing capabilities of these phones when in fact they *aren't* as simple as you want to claim, much less how they market them. Unless of course you *like* paying three times for your music.
We say that because that's what RIAA is talking about. Yeah, discount places and independent retailers do better, but the AVERAGE PRICE PAID by the AVERAGE CONSUMER still amounts to $18 per.
Regardless, I hardly think charging $13-$15 for a $.50 piece of plastic and a $2.00 package is "affordable" or "reasonable" in cost to expect me to rebuy. If you look at the amounts that 1) the artist makes on each sale and 2) the retailer makes on each sale, it still doesn't approach $13. Guess what? The middleman is ripping you off if you pay more than $10. And the $10 discs are usually cutouts or their CD equivalent.
Exactly. $18US for the average album is NOT "affordable prices". I already re-bought a lot of my collection from vinyl to CD an I refuse to be gigged again.
The crux of his argument is that, since he disagrees with some of the CC licenses, and people tend to lump them all together, he feels compelled to reject them all.
Anyone who is surprised at such a dogmatic, hard line response from RMS hasn't been paying attention.
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Riiiight. Anyone remember the Wired with the smiley face, subtitled "The Long Boom" claiming that this time it wasn't a bubble?
Last time I checked my wife's iPod, it played MP3's or ripped AAC files without any encumbrance whatsoever. So you don't download them from ITMS, doesn't mean there isn't at least SOME means of providing them legally (with media).
Anyone can get the XRay extension for firefox and see that this is not truly the case. There are FAR too many nested layers of <div> as just one starting point. I'd personally not like to try hacking the CSS here much. I'd expect unanticipated problems (like the need for two p tags after the first paragraph of a journal entry...)
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This has to be one of the most assinine things I've ever heard. So, I shouldn't listen to or buy Beethoven's 5th and 9th because I don't know anything about the rest of his music? I really like "Your Woman" by White Town, but I can't buy it because everything else on that album was crap? I should never listen to Frank Zappa again, despite the fact that part 1 of Joe's Garage is brilliant, because parts 2 & 3 were so awful?
What a stupid idea. Good ideas should be rewarded. It doesn't matter if they're small ones, or big ones. And you know what? If I can buy just the tracks that I like, then I'm only rewarding the good ideas. Maybe that will be more helpful to induce artists to publish more good ideas, as opposed to the old system which has been show to bundle the bad with the good to everyone's detriment.
Can you say "negotiated compromise"? That's nowhere near the same thing as "dictated by the monopoly".
Somehow I don't think kids that grew up recording songs from sucky FM radio on even SUCKIER cassette tapes are really going to give a shit about what a handful of zealot audiophiles think. That would be the "over 30" crowd, for you kids who never heard anything but CDs.
The DRM is exactly what the Music Industry specified.
Yeah, that's why the "work around" is so easy, because the Music Industry wants that to be possible. Riiiight.
I think there's a good reason your name is "BadAnalogyGuy". Can you say "you're not Sun's target market"? There are plenty of bloggers who aren't just some slashdot reader sitting in his parent's basement, but actually use real equipment in real datacenters and they're the ones Jonathan is probably trying to reach out to (can't read his mind after all). By all means, get the tool you need. Server class x86 systems are typically way louder than you'll want to play World of Warcroft on too.
Yes, plenty of quacks are out pounding this drum. In Oak Park, IL, there was a parent's group trying to get wifi banned in the junior high schools for exactly the same reason ("think of the CHILDREN!"). Whether you agree that Jr High kids *need* wifi or not, the argument that it's harmful to their health is pretty ridiculous, and the group was eventually stopped from having any influence. But not after weeks of editorializing and wild claims on their part in the local papers.
Of course you have to wonder if these people built faraday cages around their houses and cars, given their neighbors potential use of wifi and cordless phones, the prevalence of radio, cellular, broadcast tv, and other wireless waves.
Maybe they have mapped the locations of all the towers around and have made sure they live a maximum distance from all of them. Maybe they never take their children to Borders, McDonalds, or any of the couple dozen other businesses that have wifi. Maybe they don't use cellphones themselves.
But I doubt it.
Sure I can enable it. If I want my brand new phone's warranty to be completely void.
Yeah. That's how I transferred the MP3's from the lifedrive into the transflash card. I would have used my PC except my PC doesn't currently have an SD slot. As for the software, yeah, I have a copy of Media Player 10 too. Hello? The MP3's weren't recognized by the phone, and I don't think Verizon was sitting there saying "nope, we didn't authorize these".
My a950 is a perfectly capable camera (for snapshots) and a decent phone, but I'll be damned if I can figure out why I'd want to pay even more just to be able to use the MP3 player capabilities. No, they don't bundle the cable, no I'm not paying airtime + >$1 per song to download them. It's stupid enough that the phone doesn't include any normal human being type ringtones.
Those were the "any" MP3's you refer to above.
They aren't seen by my phone. So clearly, your claims of technical ignorance and that "any" phone can play "any" MP3 are far overblown.
Obviously, there probably needs to be some other additional update to the phone for MP3's, but since Samsung doesn't see fit to include a USB cable with their phone, and Verizon does see fit to neuter the Bluetooth capabilities of all their phones, I'm not in a position to do it "the right way" to find out how to do it "my way".
Am I bitching about Verizon? Not really. This is a CELLPHONE for me, not an MP3 player, not anything else. And from that perspective, Verizon is the best of my options where I am at. But I was curious, and find it somewhat ironic that they market all the amazing capabilities of these phones when in fact they *aren't* as simple as you want to claim, much less how they market them. Unless of course you *like* paying three times for your music.
Clearly you just don't fucking get it.
As soon as Apple releases a version of MacOS x86 that I can buy and run on *MY* hardware, I'll be happy to pay them good money for it.
Zackly my point.
Do you think they retooled all the old gadgets that didn't fit the AC standard when it was finally arrived at?
Regardless, I hardly think charging $13-$15 for a $.50 piece of plastic and a $2.00 package is "affordable" or "reasonable" in cost to expect me to rebuy. If you look at the amounts that 1) the artist makes on each sale and 2) the retailer makes on each sale, it still doesn't approach $13. Guess what? The middleman is ripping you off if you pay more than $10. And the $10 discs are usually cutouts or their CD equivalent.
Exactly. $18US for the average album is NOT "affordable prices". I already re-bought a lot of my collection from vinyl to CD an I refuse to be gigged again.
An official release before using it might be nice too.
So basically only US citizens get a way to enter for free. As required by US law. Why is that surprising?
Anyone who is surprised at such a dogmatic, hard line response from RMS hasn't been paying attention.
Riiiight. Anyone remember the Wired with the smiley face, subtitled "The Long Boom" claiming that this time it wasn't a bubble?
Regardless, a ripped AAC is not going to have any problem with being synced into any given computer.
Last time I checked my wife's iPod, it played MP3's or ripped AAC files without any encumbrance whatsoever. So you don't download them from ITMS, doesn't mean there isn't at least SOME means of providing them legally (with media).
Not only that, but iTunes is not any significant amount more accurate in genre classification than cddb.
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Anyone can get the XRay extension for firefox and see that this is not truly the case. There are FAR too many nested layers of <div> as just one starting point. I'd personally not like to try hacking the CSS here much. I'd expect unanticipated problems (like the need for two p tags after the first paragraph of a journal entry...)
From what others have said here that seems the most likely circumstance.