Speaking as an audio freak, MP3s are *never* CD quality sound. There are audible artifacts even at high quality compression (128k +) rates. You just don't hear them much on computer-quality D/A equipment and computer-quality speakers and amps.
But if I were to burn a CD from decompressed MP3s and play it through my Audio Van Alstine D/A, AVA tube-mosfet hybrid amplifiers and Klipsch speakers, I would be really annoyed by them.
You can't copyright anything you please, even if you think you invented it. The questions from Andover.Net's attorney directly question whether the material in question is copyrightable or even whether it can legally be considered trade secret information. So not "you should never have copyrighted it" but "you never had the legal right to copyright this".
While I am no fan of Bill Clinton, expansion of domestic police power and interference with other sovereign governments has been a staple of US politics since the 1950s at least. I mean, J. Edgar Hoover mean anything to you? How about Richard M. Nixon?
It's not necessarily wasteful. Take the example of a PDP-10. A PDP-10 is a completely obsolete computer, but capable of useful work, like serving DNS or any number of simple tasks. However, it's far more wasteful to run it than it is to recycle the machine for its precious metal content, because an operating PDP-10 needs about 100 amps of electricity and 20 tons of refrigeration. You need to look at the whole cycle...
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Speaking as an audio freak, MP3s are *never* CD quality sound. There are audible artifacts even at high quality compression (128k +) rates. You just don't hear them much on computer-quality D/A equipment and computer-quality speakers and amps.
But if I were to burn a CD from decompressed MP3s and play it through my Audio Van Alstine D/A, AVA tube-mosfet hybrid amplifiers and Klipsch speakers, I would be really annoyed by them.
You can't copyright anything you please, even if you think you invented it. The questions from Andover.Net's attorney directly question whether the material in question is copyrightable or even whether it can legally be considered trade secret information. So not "you should never have copyrighted it" but "you never had the legal right to copyright this".
While I am no fan of Bill Clinton, expansion of domestic police power and interference with other sovereign governments has been a staple of US politics since the 1950s at least. I mean, J. Edgar Hoover mean anything to you? How about Richard M. Nixon?
It's not necessarily wasteful. Take the example of a PDP-10. A PDP-10 is a completely obsolete computer, but capable of useful work, like serving DNS or any number of simple tasks. However, it's far more wasteful to run it than it is to recycle the machine for its precious metal content, because an operating PDP-10 needs about 100 amps of electricity and 20 tons of refrigeration. You need to look at the whole cycle...