Too bad this was discovered. The more people understand DRM the more they look at alternatives. At home I have one machine converted to Ubuntu and have 5 more to go.
...So I kept shopping until I found an MP3 player that met all of my needs, including Ogg Vorbis support.
Good start. Wake me up when I need to replace the living room DVD player and my car. Both play CDR's full of MP3's. I haven't found replacement products to change these common denominators. The hardware decoder for the propritory format is already paid for.
Making the change will be about as easy as converting from gasoline to compressed natural gas as the common fuel for my car, lawn mower, portable generator, camp stove, camp lantern, chain saw, weed eater, etc. They all run on gas. A couple run on gas mixed with 2 cycle oil. I can get a car conversion to run on compressed natural gas, but it will take a very long time if ever to convert completely from the liquid format to the high pressure format. MP3 to Ogg has the same mountain in the way to universal conversion. There are a few items that will run on CNG and there are some items whick will run on it, but for the rest of us, the other just works even though it has a high and rising cost. Devices and content are the easiest to find in common formats. At the moment that is gasoline and MP3's. Someday MP3's and gasoline may be hard to come by. At that time there will be format wars. Open Ogg, Open horses, propane, Flac, Diesel, WMA, electric, Atrac, Quicktime, Lead acid, Ni-MAH, Lithium, LNG, CNG, or some new format. The easy to duplicate format Ogg and horses both have issues with obtaining materials to power them and are not found in common use in homes across the world.
Pardon me while find hay to feed my horse and Ogg files from a legal store from one of the major lables.
Shell, Texaco, BP, Arco, etc do not sell hay or compressed natural gas at at station near me, and Samsung, Sandisk, Kenwood, Sony, Apple, Rio, Creative, Sanyo, Toshiba, and etc do not sell Ogg players. The above sell gasoline and MP3 capable devices. The format war has a long way to go.
In this day and age there's no good reason for anyone to still be using mp3.
Except that is the universal common denominator that my CD player, DVD player, car stereo, CDEx, Winamp, and I-pod have in common. Why transcode the library into an incompatible format?
Ogg files play on only one device at home.. MP3's work everywhere. Maybe in 10 years when all my replaced electronics will supports the format, then maybe it will be time to transcode or re-rip.
Yes, and if enough people start browsing with a plugin that strips away connections to any site but the requested site, ad trackers will just proxy their ad requests with all that machine and network information through the commercial sites you are visiting, instead of putting links to graphics on foreign sites in web pages.
When the junk lowers the signal to noise ratio to where the junk buries the content, I stop visiting. Yahoo for at while did these advertisements that would cover the content for several seconds. I stopped using Yahoo for a while until I ripped flash out of a machine to use on Yahoo. Geocities had those cover the content ads that stuck to the top right of the screen. I don't know if they still exist. I haven't been to a Geocities site in years.
Reducing the value of your site to a visitor reduces the value of the site to the visitor. How many visitors are you planning on driving to the competition. Google didn't become the #1 search engine by accident. They had to beat Ask, Yahoo, Hot-Bot, Lycos, and many others. MSN is still trying to climb the hill, but is stalled with the sale of advertising space.
Learn how to set up a hosts file. Be sure ATDMT.com is in the file. When the banners try to load and set a cookie, the banner ad server will not be found and can not set a tracking cookie. The doubleclick URL's should be in the hosts file as well as other banner ad hosts.
Of course, these stickers will still be ignored just like EULA's, software manuals, etc.
Just like the Linksys router I just bought. It had a sticker over the CAT5 jacks that said to install the software CD before connecting.
I had already set up the PC and just wished to use the web based configuration. I didn't install the software. I pointed my browser at the router default IP address and configured from there. Too many items sold assume a Windows only environment and do not list the other options for installing and configuring the hardware.
This is for detecting whether you've got a particular broadcast going.
Somehow this sounds like going back to the Cue Cat days with the audio cable that was to connect your PC to your TV or radio so when and audio que was heard, it would deliver revelant content to your PC.
Somehow I suspect it will get a slightly warmer reception than the Cue Cat audio patch cord as there are now no wires to run.
I don't remember anybody using the patch cords with the Cue Cat software. I do know of a few who said "Wow, a free audio patch cord!". It made recording songs off the radio easy when most people were stuck on dial-up so Napster was not an option. The bad thing about radio rips is the DJ tended to blather stuff on the lead-in and out on songs. It didn't matter when you recorded an entire show such as Dr. Demento.
If you look at something small like a one watt flashlight, there are no 1 watt CF bulbs, so LEDs are best.
CF's would make a lousy flashlight bulb for the simple reason they are also not used in spotlights. They are not a point source light that can be focused into a beam. A 1 watt LED makes a great flashlight. I have one.
FYI, The big drivers are part of the anti-counterfiting stuff. The big driver examines what you are scanning or printing and looks for the constellation in the yellow channel. It's a feature of most scanners and printers that do more than 300 DPI printing. It's designed to keep your school kids from printing dollar bills to use in the school vending machines.
Funny you mentioned declines in the products bang for the buck.
I have a home network and have networked my printers so we could do with fewer printers. My main printer is an ancient LaserJet III. It gets a new $30 toner cartridge (Not from HP) about once every 2 years. The only pain with it is remembering to turn it on before sending a print job. Keeping the fuser hot sucks juice and warms the room.
My second printer is an HP 722c. It does not lock out or expire cartridges. The black is easly refilled. The color cartridges (full ones) are about $40 for a twin pack. It is old enough to be a reliable printer and I get over 7 refills before the print quality starts to get noticable. Black ink is about $30 per pint. I buy a replacement black cart about once a year. I picked up some color ink and tried refilling a few times, but air bubbles in the sponge were a constant problem. I gave up on refilling color HP carts.
My 3rd printer is a very nice HP 950. It made a nice network printer as it would automaticaly do the cartridge alignment. It used the same black cartridge as my other printer but alas, it would read the serial number of the cartridge and refuse to use it after it thought it was empty. There was a way past that but it required 2 other black cartridges so the old cart serial number would scroll out of the last 2 carts buffer. I didn't do enough printing to keep a rotation of 3 black cartridges so the next cart up usualy dried out and plugged up solid. I tried refilling the color carts and needed the 3 cart rotation, but air bubbles were a problem and sometimes in the middle of a print with the ink monitor showing full carts, it would get a cart error and stop printing in the middle of a photo. This was not a case of running out of one color and getting a funny colored print. This was the printer stopped printing and blinked the ink cart light. Grrr.
The color cartridge is the same size as the cartridge my 722c printer used. It holds about the same amount of ink. A single full cartridge is about $60. Due to the issues of supplying this printer, it sits on a shelf as a spare.
My wife got a Dell printer with her new computer a few years ago. It used cartridges that were about the same price as the HP carts. The carts were about 1/4 the size. That printer went to Goodwill as soon as it ran out of ink. It looked to be at least twice as expensive to run as my shelf decoration. To make matters even worse, it came with drivers for Win XP and Win 2K only. That made it a horrible network printer. Only my wife's machine could use the printer as there were no drivers for any of my other machines. Good riddance.
I do my photo printing at Costco now. End of rant. Thanks for reading.
Wow, A geek site and nobody mentioned the limitation on a single length of a Cat5 cable. If you want to reach further with a single wire, use 10 base 2 or Fiber. Fibre has much more lightning resistance. Coax was noted for longer lengths. Twisted pair was noted for fault tolerance (a break doesn't take the network down) and higher speed.
I'm too busy to look the spec up for max segment length for 10 base 2 and 10/100 Cat5.
For a long run, repeaters are required to keep the maximum segment length requirement.
The device has two modes. One mode attaches like a USB drive and supports MP3 and non DRM WMA files. Unlike an Ipod, files transfered here are playable.
The other mode is useless. That mode is all the Windows DRM WMA and subscription stuff. That's of no use to Linux users.
The player has two modes. One is like a USB drive. Non DRM MP3 and WMA files can be dragged and dropped. The other supports Microsoft DRM Plays for Sure. In that mode Windows Media Player on Windows XP is used to transfer secure WMA files.
I went to the additonal information and downloaded the user guide..
The player has two modes. One mode is like an external USB drive and supports MP3's. That should work just fine for Linux. Two drives will show. One is the internal memory and the other is the SD card.
The other mode the player supports if for subscription services and uses Windows DRM. For Linux users this is a useless feature along with the Windows requirement and anything secure WMA files.
Thought you should know.
The section in the manual covers some FAQ's including why some DRM WMA files won't play and some stuff of expiration of files by the copyright holders.. Funny these are features of the Microsoft Plays for Sure stuff.
I think I'll stick to MP3's as they play for sure.
I'm not so sure about the Microsoft's Plays for Sure content. It sounds like it might not play for sure.
To me, this sounds a lot like a generator. You know, rotating a wire loop through a magnetic field to generate an electic current. That's only been around for, what, 180 years?
I agree. Like many over unity inventors they seem to overlook the energy requirements by making assumptions. I looked at the patent drawing and read the description.
Wanna bet they didn't calculate the change in coil current when the shield was moving into position? They could have taken static coil current measurements with the shield in place and the shield in another location but didn't add in the power used when the motor moved the shield and noticed the excess current (over unity) when the shield stopped moving.
I agree. I had a generator once that got a short in a winding. It didn't quite stall the engine, but it shure let the smoke out for a short time. Without the magic of the magnets, there would be no high current in the coils to produce the smoke.
Since it's probably BS, I don't really have to worry about either one of those two thoughts
As with all perpetual engines with a surplus of output energy, wake me up when they have one running a load and not connected to a power source. I'll be interested in a few months of unattended operation.
In the meantime keep it to the cheap checkout magazines. When they stick some magnets on a flywheel and after starting it gains speed on it's own unless a load is applied, and it is no longer connected to a power source, and a sustained steady state of energy production goes for weeks, then post the results for peer review and duplication of the experiment by third parties.
Going back to real news for nerds in the meantime. The Core Duo is due out next month which replaces the Crusoe chip. Now that's news for nerds. http://www.intel.com/products/processor/core2duo/i ndex.htm?ppc_cid=ggl|c2d_us_brand|k6CDC|s They claim up to 40 percent faster and 40 percent more energy effecient. It sounds like the new laptops will be real screamers while using less power for long battery life. Woo Hoo!
If the police won't do anything, call the local press.
Want action? Tell them the company transactions were stolen including credit card numbers. It's even better if some of the police department were some of the customers and recieved a your account may be compromised letter. They need a small bonfire under them to get them moving.
It's like catching someone in your car taking your radio. You can report the crime in progress, or report you ran across someone in your car and they appeared to threaten you with a gun and if they move you will shoot them. The latter gets instant response.
Two examples I can mention as a roadmap for the copyright holders to look up.
1 George Lucas... Star Wars will never be released on Video
2 Disney Company... The classic films will never be released on Video
I can now legaly buy copies of Star Wars, Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and others to replace my low quality pirated copies from many years ago.
I had Star Wars about 4 years before it was released on VHS.
Someday the hold outs in the music industry will figure many Beatles collections are mostly pirated because of very high prices and very limited options. The void has been filled.
The one that says that record companies get paid a "tax" on all recordable media that's sold as compensation for those perceived loses due to copying on that media? The one that, strangely enough, doesn't list computers as a recording device?
There is a tax on blank Music CDR's. I use them when I copy a friends CD. Tax and thus royalty payment has been made. If they didn't have a tax on the blank music CDR's then I would not have implied permission to make the copy.
What we need is anti-campaigns. Here's my idea. Show the victims of theft..
I like the idea. How much does it cost to re-release old classic rock music? Why is it much more expensive than the new stuff?
I went to Wal Mart today with my kid. We ended up in the music section. Many CD's were under $8. For grins I looked for some Pink Floyd and Queen. Pink Floyd's The Wall was over $30. Needless to say, that's why I don't bother buying music anymore. Queen's A Night at the Opera was over $15.
I tend to buy DVD's instead of CD's. I get better material for less.
If older music were more affordable, I would be much less likely to burn from a borrowed copy.
When I was in my 20's and movies were in the $60 and up range and blank VHS tape was in the $10-$15 each range, I tended to copy borrowed tapes. Now that movies are in the price range blank tape used to be, I don't bother copying anymore.
The music industry still does not get it. Get the price markers out and open the back catalog and watch people fill their music libraries. It doesn't happen at premium prices.
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Too bad this was discovered. The more people understand DRM the more they look at alternatives. At home I have one machine converted to Ubuntu and have 5 more to go.
...So I kept shopping until I found an MP3 player that met all of my needs, including Ogg Vorbis support.
Good start. Wake me up when I need to replace the living room DVD player and my car. Both play CDR's full of MP3's. I haven't found replacement products to change these common denominators. The hardware decoder for the propritory format is already paid for.
Making the change will be about as easy as converting from gasoline to compressed natural gas as the common fuel for my car, lawn mower, portable generator, camp stove, camp lantern, chain saw, weed eater, etc. They all run on gas. A couple run on gas mixed with 2 cycle oil. I can get a car conversion to run on compressed natural gas, but it will take a very long time if ever to convert completely from the liquid format to the high pressure format. MP3 to Ogg has the same mountain in the way to universal conversion. There are a few items that will run on CNG and there are some items whick will run on it, but for the rest of us, the other just works even though it has a high and rising cost. Devices and content are the easiest to find in common formats. At the moment that is gasoline and MP3's. Someday MP3's and gasoline may be hard to come by. At that time there will be format wars. Open Ogg, Open horses, propane, Flac, Diesel, WMA, electric, Atrac, Quicktime, Lead acid, Ni-MAH, Lithium, LNG, CNG, or some new format. The easy to duplicate format Ogg and horses both have issues with obtaining materials to power them and are not found in common use in homes across the world.
Pardon me while find hay to feed my horse and Ogg files from a legal store from one of the major lables.
Shell, Texaco, BP, Arco, etc do not sell hay or compressed natural gas at at station near me, and Samsung, Sandisk, Kenwood, Sony, Apple, Rio, Creative, Sanyo, Toshiba, and etc do not sell Ogg players. The above sell gasoline and MP3 capable devices.
The format war has a long way to go.
In this day and age there's no good reason for anyone to still be using mp3.
Except that is the universal common denominator that my CD player, DVD player, car stereo, CDEx, Winamp, and I-pod have in common. Why transcode the library into an incompatible format?
Ogg files play on only one device at home.. MP3's work everywhere. Maybe in 10 years when all my replaced electronics will supports the format, then maybe it will be time to transcode or re-rip.
Yes, and if enough people start browsing with a plugin that strips away connections to any site but the requested site, ad trackers will just proxy their ad requests with all that machine and network information through the commercial sites you are visiting, instead of putting links to graphics on foreign sites in web pages.
When the junk lowers the signal to noise ratio to where the junk buries the content, I stop visiting. Yahoo for at while did these advertisements that would cover the content for several seconds. I stopped using Yahoo for a while until I ripped flash out of a machine to use on Yahoo. Geocities had those cover the content ads that stuck to the top right of the screen. I don't know if they still exist. I haven't been to a Geocities site in years.
Reducing the value of your site to a visitor reduces the value of the site to the visitor.
How many visitors are you planning on driving to the competition. Google didn't become the #1 search engine by accident. They had to beat Ask, Yahoo, Hot-Bot, Lycos, and many others. MSN is still trying to climb the hill, but is stalled with the sale of advertising space.
Learn how to set up a hosts file. Be sure ATDMT.com is in the file. When the banners try to load and set a cookie, the banner ad server will not be found and can not set a tracking cookie. The doubleclick URL's should be in the hosts file as well as other banner ad hosts.
While toolbars are the logical explanation, it could be that this person normally runs with cookies wide open.
Running AdAware and having a good hosts file go a long way in keeping the advitisers from setting tracking cookies.
Of course, these stickers will still be ignored just like EULA's, software manuals, etc.
Just like the Linksys router I just bought. It had a sticker over the CAT5 jacks that said to install the software CD before connecting.
I had already set up the PC and just wished to use the web based configuration. I didn't install the software. I pointed my browser at the router default IP address and configured from there. Too many items sold assume a Windows only environment and do not list the other options for installing and configuring the hardware.
I never did break the seal on the Linksys CD.
This is for detecting whether you've got a particular broadcast going.
Somehow this sounds like going back to the Cue Cat days with the audio cable that was to connect your PC to your TV or radio so when and audio que was heard, it would deliver revelant content to your PC.
Somehow I suspect it will get a slightly warmer reception than the Cue Cat audio patch cord as there are now no wires to run.
I don't remember anybody using the patch cords with the Cue Cat software. I do know of a few who said "Wow, a free audio patch cord!". It made recording songs off the radio easy when most people were stuck on dial-up so Napster was not an option. The bad thing about radio rips is the DJ tended to blather stuff on the lead-in and out on songs. It didn't matter when you recorded an entire show such as Dr. Demento.
For good color, forget mecury vapour. Get a Metal Halide.
If you look at something small like a one watt flashlight, there are no 1 watt CF bulbs, so LEDs are best.
CF's would make a lousy flashlight bulb for the simple reason they are also not used in spotlights. They are not a point source light that can be focused into a beam. A 1 watt LED makes a great flashlight. I have one.
FYI, The big drivers are part of the anti-counterfiting stuff. The big driver examines what you are scanning or printing and looks for the constellation in the yellow channel. It's a feature of most scanners and printers that do more than 300 DPI printing. It's designed to keep your school kids from printing dollar bills to use in the school vending machines.
Funny you mentioned declines in the products bang for the buck.
I have a home network and have networked my printers so we could do with fewer printers. My main printer is an ancient LaserJet III. It gets a new $30 toner cartridge (Not from HP) about once every 2 years. The only pain with it is remembering to turn it on before sending a print job. Keeping the fuser hot sucks juice and warms the room.
My second printer is an HP 722c. It does not lock out or expire cartridges. The black is easly refilled. The color cartridges (full ones) are about $40 for a twin pack. It is old enough to be a reliable printer and I get over 7 refills before the print quality starts to get noticable. Black ink is about $30 per pint. I buy a replacement black cart about once a year. I picked up some color ink and tried refilling a few times, but air bubbles in the sponge were a constant problem. I gave up on refilling color HP carts.
My 3rd printer is a very nice HP 950. It made a nice network printer as it would automaticaly do the cartridge alignment. It used the same black cartridge as my other printer but alas, it would read the serial number of the cartridge and refuse to use it after it thought it was empty. There was a way past that but it required 2 other black cartridges so the old cart serial number would scroll out of the last 2 carts buffer. I didn't do enough printing to keep a rotation of 3 black cartridges so the next cart up usualy dried out and plugged up solid. I tried refilling the color carts and needed the 3 cart rotation, but air bubbles were a problem and sometimes in the middle of a print with the ink monitor showing full carts, it would get a cart error and stop printing in the middle of a photo. This was not a case of running out of one color and getting a funny colored print. This was the printer stopped printing and blinked the ink cart light. Grrr.
The color cartridge is the same size as the cartridge my 722c printer used. It holds about the same amount of ink. A single full cartridge is about $60. Due to the issues of supplying this printer, it sits on a shelf as a spare.
My wife got a Dell printer with her new computer a few years ago. It used cartridges that were about the same price as the HP carts. The carts were about 1/4 the size. That printer went to Goodwill as soon as it ran out of ink. It looked to be at least twice as expensive to run as my shelf decoration. To make matters even worse, it came with drivers for Win XP and Win 2K only. That made it a horrible network printer. Only my wife's machine could use the printer as there were no drivers for any of my other machines. Good riddance.
I do my photo printing at Costco now.
End of rant. Thanks for reading.
Wow, A geek site and nobody mentioned the limitation on a single length of a Cat5 cable. If you want to reach further with a single wire, use 10 base 2 or Fiber. Fibre has much more lightning resistance. Coax was noted for longer lengths. Twisted pair was noted for fault tolerance (a break doesn't take the network down) and higher speed.
I'm too busy to look the spec up for max segment length for 10 base 2 and 10/100 Cat5.
For a long run, repeaters are required to keep the maximum segment length requirement.
Read the owners manual.
The device has two modes.
One mode attaches like a USB drive and supports MP3 and non DRM WMA files. Unlike an Ipod, files transfered here are playable.
The other mode is useless. That mode is all the Windows DRM WMA and subscription stuff. That's of no use to Linux users.
From the user manual shortened and condensed;
The player has two modes. One is like a USB drive. Non DRM MP3 and WMA files can be dragged and dropped.
The other supports Microsoft DRM Plays for Sure. In that mode Windows Media Player on Windows XP is used to transfer secure WMA files.
A peek in the downloadable user manual mentions support for MP3, WMA, and secure WMA audio formats.
As much as I like Ogg. I still rip to MP3 because everything plays it including my DVD player.
I went to the additonal information and downloaded the user guide..
The player has two modes. One mode is like an external USB drive and supports MP3's. That should work just fine for Linux. Two drives will show. One is the internal memory and the other is the SD card.
The other mode the player supports if for subscription services and uses Windows DRM. For Linux users this is a useless feature along with the Windows requirement and anything secure WMA files.
Thought you should know.
The section in the manual covers some FAQ's including why some DRM WMA files won't play and some stuff of expiration of files by the copyright holders.. Funny these are features of the Microsoft Plays for Sure stuff.
I think I'll stick to MP3's as they play for sure.
I'm not so sure about the Microsoft's Plays for Sure content. It sounds like it might not play for sure.
To me, this sounds a lot like a generator. You know, rotating a wire loop through a magnetic field to generate an electic current. That's only been around for, what, 180 years?
I agree. Like many over unity inventors they seem to overlook the energy requirements by making assumptions. I looked at the patent drawing and read the description.
Wanna bet they didn't calculate the change in coil current when the shield was moving into position? They could have taken static coil current measurements with the shield in place and the shield in another location but didn't add in the power used when the motor moved the shield and noticed the excess current (over unity) when the shield stopped moving.
You must have not been applying enough power.
I agree. I had a generator once that got a short in a winding. It didn't quite stall the engine, but it shure let the smoke out for a short time.
Without the magic of the magnets, there would be no high current in the coils to produce the smoke.
Since it's probably BS, I don't really have to worry about either one of those two thoughts
i ndex.htm?ppc_cid=ggl|c2d_us_brand|k6CDC|s
As with all perpetual engines with a surplus of output energy, wake me up when they have one running a load and not connected to a power source. I'll be interested in a few months of unattended operation.
In the meantime keep it to the cheap checkout magazines. When they stick some magnets on a flywheel and after starting it gains speed on it's own unless a load is applied, and it is no longer connected to a power source, and a sustained steady state of energy production goes for weeks, then post the results for peer review and duplication of the experiment by third parties.
Going back to real news for nerds in the meantime. The Core Duo is due out next month which replaces the Crusoe chip. Now that's news for nerds. http://www.intel.com/products/processor/core2duo/
They claim up to 40 percent faster and 40 percent more energy effecient. It sounds like the new laptops will be real screamers while using less power for long battery life. Woo Hoo!
If the police won't do anything, call the local press.
Want action? Tell them the company transactions were stolen including credit card numbers. It's even better if some of the police department were some of the customers and recieved a your account may be compromised letter. They need a small bonfire under them to get them moving.
It's like catching someone in your car taking your radio. You can report the crime in progress, or report you ran across someone in your car and they appeared to threaten you with a gun and if they move you will shoot them. The latter gets instant response.
The albums usually have 1 or 2 tracks for sale individually but the rest require you to buy the album.
For real.. Would you pay 99 cents for a DRM version of Revolution Number Nine on The White Album?
It would have been fine if they left that track off.
They can hold out as long as they want.
Two examples I can mention as a roadmap for the copyright holders to look up.
1 George Lucas... Star Wars will never be released on Video
2 Disney Company... The classic films will never be released on Video
I can now legaly buy copies of Star Wars, Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and others to replace my low quality pirated copies from many years ago.
I had Star Wars about 4 years before it was released on VHS.
Someday the hold outs in the music industry will figure many Beatles collections are mostly pirated because of very high prices and very limited options. The void has been filled.
The one that says that record companies get paid a "tax" on all recordable media that's sold as compensation for those perceived loses due to copying on that media? The one that, strangely enough, doesn't list computers as a recording device?
There is a tax on blank Music CDR's. I use them when I copy a friends CD. Tax and thus royalty payment has been made. If they didn't have a tax on the blank music CDR's then I would not have implied permission to make the copy.
What we need is anti-campaigns. Here's my idea. Show the victims of theft..
I like the idea. How much does it cost to re-release old classic rock music? Why is it much more expensive than the new stuff?
I went to Wal Mart today with my kid. We ended up in the music section. Many CD's were under $8. For grins I looked for some Pink Floyd and Queen. Pink Floyd's The Wall was over $30. Needless to say, that's why I don't bother buying music anymore. Queen's A Night at the Opera was over $15.
I tend to buy DVD's instead of CD's. I get better material for less.
If older music were more affordable, I would be much less likely to burn from a borrowed copy.
When I was in my 20's and movies were in the $60 and up range and blank VHS tape was in the $10-$15 each range, I tended to copy borrowed tapes. Now that movies are in the price range blank tape used to be, I don't bother copying anymore.
The music industry still does not get it. Get the price markers out and open the back catalog and watch people fill their music libraries. It doesn't happen at premium prices.