I did a page at http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php that picks up a few hundred of the cameras found in google with inurl:"axis-cgi/mjpg", scans them every couple of hours, grabs the first picture from the Motion JPEG stream, geocodes them with their general location, and shows them in one page for easy access. Saves a bit of the trouble.
I'd be perfectly happy paying $1 per song if I get the added convenience of always being able to find what I'm looking for, getting a consistent quality with no cut-off songs with off-beat bitrates and bad volume settings, and with consistently and correctly labeled titles. No problem at all, and I would probably choose these over any free choice available. I'd much rather download them from a T3 that's always there, not being cut off because somebody turns off their computer.
However, essential would be that any new scheme doesn't cut me off from picking up stuff from other folks that I otherwise couldn't find. I.e. it would be totally unacceptable if the choices got limited to what the record companies would like to sell. I would want to still be able to pick up Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio shows from somebody who has recorded and collected them, even if no record company has CDs with them in their catalog.
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I did a page at http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php that picks up a few hundred of the cameras found in google with inurl:"axis-cgi/mjpg", scans them every couple of hours, grabs the first picture from the Motion JPEG stream, geocodes them with their general location, and shows them in one page for easy access. Saves a bit of the trouble.
I'd be perfectly happy paying $1 per song if I get the added convenience of always being able to find what I'm looking for, getting a consistent quality with no cut-off songs with off-beat bitrates and bad volume settings, and with consistently and correctly labeled titles. No problem at all, and I would probably choose these over any free choice available. I'd much rather download them from a T3 that's always there, not being cut off because somebody turns off their computer. However, essential would be that any new scheme doesn't cut me off from picking up stuff from other folks that I otherwise couldn't find. I.e. it would be totally unacceptable if the choices got limited to what the record companies would like to sell. I would want to still be able to pick up Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio shows from somebody who has recorded and collected them, even if no record company has CDs with them in their catalog.