i am perpetually amazed by the stupidity of the common man. be it napster-nuts or metallicatz, they're all missing the biggest point in all this mp3 noise.
the VAST majority of Napster and other sharing programs have files encoded at a bitrate 128 or less. 320 is perfect. 256 is considered anal and a waste of time to download. 192 is the highest you ever see on napster.
what is 128 kbps out of a total of 320? less than half the quality. claiming that a 128 kbps mp3 is the SAME as a CD is just plain vapid stupidity. i laugh till i hurt when people claim they are REMOTELY related.
try this: go find a reference book at the library, wipe your sweaty greasy ass all over the glass before slapping the book on the photocopier, then take a copy and hold it up near the original.
it's about the same thing. mp3 is NOT piracy. it's digital audio photocopying, and POOR quality 99.9% of the time.
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i am perpetually amazed by the stupidity of the common man. be it napster-nuts or metallicatz, they're all missing the biggest point in all this mp3 noise.
the VAST majority of Napster and other sharing programs have files encoded at a bitrate 128 or less. 320 is perfect. 256 is considered anal and a waste of time to download. 192 is the highest you ever see on napster.
what is 128 kbps out of a total of 320? less than half the quality. claiming that a 128 kbps mp3 is the SAME as a CD is just plain vapid stupidity. i laugh till i hurt when people claim they are REMOTELY related.
try this: go find a reference book at the library, wipe your sweaty greasy ass all over the glass before slapping the book on the photocopier, then take a copy and hold it up near the original.
it's about the same thing. mp3 is NOT piracy. it's digital audio photocopying, and POOR quality 99.9% of the time.
thanks for letting me get that off my chest.
-dh