I understand that artistic property such as music is something that is never going to have a clear cut solution from piracy, but when faced with such an apparently easy solution to getting this music for free, it seems deafeningly obvious that these guys are ignoring the whole "you can run but you can't hide" outlook on things. Napster had a central bannable server, gnutella comes along with a solution. Gnutella begins to be cracked down on, everyone moves to FreeNET and other easily available options.
I appreciate the delicacy of a previous poster as he mentioned that a single, independently released cd can pay for a days food, that's a very valid arguement, the distribution (albeit at times pirated) of music is not meant to hurt you, it seems aimed more at the bigger (we'll take 12 dollars, you can split the rest of the 3) middlemen.
What will I do by this? Well first off I'm not really a giant fan of this group, but I may just get it some night at home, convert it to wav, break it up into tracks, push it back to mp3 and offer it up myself. Why go through the trouble if I don't even like the guys? I think this is an admirable way to combat piracy, it makes sense because it kills a lot of the people who would download this, because they can, but I'm more offended by Lars' stupidity towards the situation. I understand that they may not know exactly who to talk to about this new type of technology, but for God's sakes, I just _know_ that some geeks are emailing them. I wish more people would listen to the guys that write these types of programs, or are at least familiar with some better ways of working around this... excuse me for the MS-esque retort, but for goodness sakes guys... innovate! Realize the marketing structure for standard music purchasing is rapidly changing due to technology. T3's a bane? Depends who ya ask chief, personally, high speed connections aren't going away, and when a better infrastructure is implemented among our nation's isps, creating a 56 meg cd isn't going to stop anyone...
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I understand that artistic property such as music is something that is never going to have a clear cut solution from piracy, but when faced with such an apparently easy solution to getting this music for free, it seems deafeningly obvious that these guys are ignoring the whole "you can run but you can't hide" outlook on things. Napster had a central bannable server, gnutella comes along with a solution. Gnutella begins to be cracked down on, everyone moves to FreeNET and other easily available options.
I appreciate the delicacy of a previous poster as he mentioned that a single, independently released cd can pay for a days food, that's a very valid arguement, the distribution (albeit at times pirated) of music is not meant to hurt you, it seems aimed more at the bigger (we'll take 12 dollars, you can split the rest of the 3) middlemen.
What will I do by this? Well first off I'm not really a giant fan of this group, but I may just get it some night at home, convert it to wav, break it up into tracks, push it back to mp3 and offer it up myself. Why go through the trouble if I don't even like the guys? I think this is an admirable way to combat piracy, it makes sense because it kills a lot of the people who would download this, because they can, but I'm more offended by Lars' stupidity towards the situation. I understand that they may not know exactly who to talk to about this new type of technology, but for God's sakes, I just _know_ that some geeks are emailing them. I wish more people would listen to the guys that write these types of programs, or are at least familiar with some better ways of working around this... excuse me for the MS-esque retort, but for goodness sakes guys... innovate! Realize the marketing structure for standard music purchasing is rapidly changing due to technology. T3's a bane? Depends who ya ask chief, personally, high speed connections aren't going away, and when a better infrastructure is implemented among our nation's isps, creating a 56 meg cd isn't going to stop anyone...
eor - (end of rant)