Until we(as a commercial populace) get bigger pipes, this is the sort of technology that will be popular. Even with the advent of bigger and badder video cards, this form of compression may fit very well with the ability of many people's systems. Someday we will all live in a fiber optic world with realtime streams that aren't compressed...but till then..
Of course I understand the argument that you would want protect your goods/services/music/etc. from being stolen.. The fact that when you see a $16 dollar CD in a store, and you choose to either buy it, or not buy it, not steal it... That's a very credible argument - However, I would like to see one authoritative example of how the trade of these mp3's are actually hurting sales. I've actually seen that due to exposure to a wider audience, CD sales are going up. I know myself that I have downloaded mp3's to see if it is material that I would want to listen to, and then have bought the CD.
Is Lars protecting his CD sales(of which may not need protecting, otherwise the CD companies would be taking action), or is he just trying to show the world what a badass Metallica is?
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Until we(as a commercial populace) get bigger pipes, this is the sort of technology that will be popular. Even with the advent of bigger and badder video cards, this form of compression may fit very well with the ability of many people's systems. Someday we will all live in a fiber optic world with realtime streams that aren't compressed...but till then..
So, if they were linked together, would that be a beowulf complex?
What about Sun Ra? I found his version of being born on Mars to be acticulated very clearly..
The fact that when you see a $16 dollar CD in a store, and you choose to either buy it, or not buy it, not steal it... That's a very credible argument
- However, I would like to see one authoritative example of how the trade of these mp3's are actually hurting sales. I've actually seen that due to exposure to a wider audience, CD sales are going up. I know myself that I have downloaded mp3's to see if it is material that I would want to listen to, and then have bought the CD.
Is Lars protecting his CD sales(of which may not need protecting, otherwise the CD companies would be taking action), or is he just trying to show the world what a badass Metallica is?
-JK