If I had 5 minutes with Lars: A. Uhhh..I remember saving 2 weeks of allowance (5 bucks a week for a 12 year old), and then walking 3 1/2 miles to the record store to purchase "Kill Em All" when it first came out...Sometime over the next 15 odd years -- "Seek and Destroy" has devoloped an odd scratchy sound....I discover that I can use Napster to Breeth new life into "Motorbreath"..... And now you are saying you want to sue me????? This whole Metallica VS. Napster thing is worse than your last 3 albums!!! (Which I still paid cash for -- thank you) B. If you guys are really starving, and need the cash -- I understand their are some humanitarian programs already underway that are aware of your plight.....(paylars.com) I just find it ironic that the bands that already have more money than they know what to do with, are the ones throwing up their arms in disgust -- while the "unsighned / starving artists" love the free pub. (Which I am sure Metallica would have 16 years ago)..Before they were rich P.S. Thanks for being honest and answering the question about what album you thought to be your best(Ride The Lightning)....At least that goes to show you are not totally ignorant to the fact that you have sold out to "the man"... An Ex Fan.
"Owning a CD is no defense; well, it wasn't in the mp3.com case anyway. Fair use does not apply under the DMCA, because it's a law bought by the copyright cartels."
I think it becomes a defense when they actually knock on my door, and want to take me to jail. I think I will fork out a few bucks and start to get my cd's "stamped" notarised (sic?) (So I can show proof of ownership at the trial.)
(I had intented that to be funny, but now that I think of it, based on the sad state of affairs...It does not sound like a bad idea)
I guess it takes a lot of money for a bad band to make a good cd....However -- good bands can stick a boom box in front of their monitor, and guess what?...It's still good.
This makes a lot of sense. I for one collect music as a hobby, so a disc full of MP3's without the cover art, lyrics, and that SWEET SWEET smell of newness....do me little good...So I never really picked up on mp3's until my.mp3.com
Alas -- mp3.com has partnered with 3 online legit. music dealers who will make the songs available as mp3's as soon as I purchase them on their website...For me this is perfect, and it solves the age old problem I have with mail order, which is -- if I want something bad enough -- I want it now...I don't want to wait for the UPS man....However the beam-it stuff, helped "hold me over until the "real thing" could come in the "snail..errr.mail".....I have purchased over $300 worth of CD's this way since my.mp3.com began....So in this case --- I would say by shutting down mp3.com, the artists and labels are only hurting themselves....
Now napster on the other hand....That is just a bunch of cheap skates, that have no real appreciation for the artists or the art.....
Right now I have a Palm Vx for PDA and the 64MB RaveMP for playing MP3's...Would it not be a downgrade to get this 32 meg PDA? I would love to consolidate, however; it would need to be a step forward and not a step back. I don't think the color screen would make up for everything. I love Linux, but I think I will hold out for something that offers over 100 MB space.
On the bright side - I could save a nickel a day, and by the time any of these "vapor-type" products (IE - Portable players that will play CD's full of MP3's, and PDA's that will handle all tasks) actually were on the shelves at Best Buy -- I could buy 1 of each.
Wow...This is a big day for laptop hard drive advances. They can now fit all of the "libraries" that constitute a VB app onto the micro platters.
I had one of my programmers create a "quick" little app that would grab some info from a database, and parse it into a.csv file. When the verdict (package) clocked in at around 10 meg -- I quickly dismissed ever using VB again.
I guess if I wanted to make a business out of it..I could trim a minute or two. However -- like you, I am a music fan and really do get a good feeling unwrapping a new CD, reading the notes and lyrics, and adding it to my official collection. OOP, Not yet released (swapped from the warehouse?), Bootleg....Now thats what Napster is good for.
Ok. This guy has a point. And I did try this out the other day:
A - Find a CD I want.
B - Hunt Napster for songs from that CD.
C - Attempt to download said songs (preferablly from people with connections faster than my 300bps BBS days).
D - After finally putting together the whole album..(A task I can only compare to finishing my Original Star Wars IV "in the box" figure set...Unless you are looking for top 40...which you could just hit hear on the radio anyway) Determine if the songs are actually "whole" songs and not snippets of downloads gone bad in a previous life.
E - Convert to WAV files
F - Burn to CDR
Time spent hunting: 1+ hours
Time spent dload (T1): 1+ hours
Time spent re-dload (people think it's neat to cancel a request 3 megs in: 1+ hours
Time spent quality check: 45 mins (listen to each song)
Time spent convert and burn: 45 mins
Total time: 5.5+ hours for 1 CD (I think my time is a little more valuable than that....I will stick to buying them the old fashioned way thank you...Unless it is OOP or something)
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If I had 5 minutes with Lars: A. Uhhh..I remember saving 2 weeks of allowance (5 bucks a week for a 12 year old), and then walking 3 1/2 miles to the record store to purchase "Kill Em All" when it first came out...Sometime over the next 15 odd years -- "Seek and Destroy" has devoloped an odd scratchy sound....I discover that I can use Napster to Breeth new life into "Motorbreath"..... And now you are saying you want to sue me????? This whole Metallica VS. Napster thing is worse than your last 3 albums!!! (Which I still paid cash for -- thank you) B. If you guys are really starving, and need the cash -- I understand their are some humanitarian programs already underway that are aware of your plight.....(paylars.com) I just find it ironic that the bands that already have more money than they know what to do with, are the ones throwing up their arms in disgust -- while the "unsighned / starving artists" love the free pub. (Which I am sure Metallica would have 16 years ago)..Before they were rich P.S. Thanks for being honest and answering the question about what album you thought to be your best(Ride The Lightning)....At least that goes to show you are not totally ignorant to the fact that you have sold out to "the man"... An Ex Fan.
"Owning a CD is no defense; well, it wasn't in the mp3.com case anyway. Fair use does not apply under the DMCA, because it's a law bought by the copyright cartels."
I think it becomes a defense when they actually knock on my door, and want to take me to jail. I think I will fork out a few bucks and start to get my cd's "stamped" notarised (sic?) (So I can show proof of ownership at the trial.)
(I had intented that to be funny, but now that I think of it, based on the sad state of affairs...It does not sound like a bad idea)
IMHO
I guess it takes a lot of money for a bad band to make a good cd....However -- good bands can stick a boom box in front of their monitor, and guess what?...It's still good.
This makes a lot of sense. I for one collect music as a hobby, so a disc full of MP3's without the cover art, lyrics, and that SWEET SWEET smell of newness....do me little good...So I never really picked up on mp3's until my.mp3.com
Alas -- mp3.com has partnered with 3 online legit. music dealers who will make the songs available as mp3's as soon as I purchase them on their website...For me this is perfect, and it solves the age old problem I have with mail order, which is -- if I want something bad enough -- I want it now...I don't want to wait for the UPS man....However the beam-it stuff, helped "hold me over until the "real thing" could come in the "snail..errr.mail".....I have purchased over $300 worth of CD's this way since my.mp3.com began....So in this case --- I would say by shutting down mp3.com, the artists and labels are only hurting themselves....
Now napster on the other hand....That is just a bunch of cheap skates, that have no real appreciation for the artists or the art.....
IMHO
I see the Linux USB support getting a lot of "love" over this. Considering at least 1 or 2 high profile hackers happen to be "tea" drinkers.
Right now I have a Palm Vx for PDA and the 64MB RaveMP for playing MP3's...Would it not be a downgrade to get this 32 meg PDA? I would love to consolidate, however; it would need to be a step forward and not a step back. I don't think the color screen would make up for everything. I love Linux, but I think I will hold out for something that offers over 100 MB space.
On the bright side - I could save a nickel a day, and by the time any of these "vapor-type" products (IE - Portable players that will play CD's full of MP3's, and PDA's that will handle all tasks) actually were on the shelves at Best Buy -- I could buy 1 of each.
Wow...This is a big day for laptop hard drive advances. They can now fit all of the "libraries" that constitute a VB app onto the micro platters.
.csv file. When the verdict (package) clocked in at around 10 meg -- I quickly dismissed ever using VB again.
I had one of my programmers create a "quick" little app that would grab some info from a database, and parse it into a
Is it not a "toy" language?
I guess if I wanted to make a business out of it..I could trim a minute or two. However -- like you, I am a music fan and really do get a good feeling unwrapping a new CD, reading the notes and lyrics, and adding it to my official collection. OOP, Not yet released (swapped from the warehouse?), Bootleg....Now thats what Napster is good for.
Ok. This guy has a point. And I did try this out the other day:
A - Find a CD I want.
B - Hunt Napster for songs from that CD.
C - Attempt to download said songs (preferablly from people with connections faster than my 300bps BBS days).
D - After finally putting together the whole album..(A task I can only compare to finishing my Original Star Wars IV "in the box" figure set...Unless you are looking for top 40...which you could just hit hear on the radio anyway) Determine if the songs are actually "whole" songs and not snippets of downloads gone bad in a previous life.
E - Convert to WAV files
F - Burn to CDR
Time spent hunting: 1+ hours
Time spent dload (T1): 1+ hours
Time spent re-dload (people think it's neat to cancel a request 3 megs in: 1+ hours
Time spent quality check: 45 mins (listen to each song)
Time spent convert and burn: 45 mins
Total time: 5.5+ hours for 1 CD (I think my time is a little more valuable than that....I will stick to buying them the old fashioned way thank you...Unless it is OOP or something)