This is SO not going to work. People have become USED to taking their entire CD collections, ripping them into MP3s or some other format, and then using jukebox software to arrange and play them back. We all also listen to CDs at work, and what do we use? A computer, of course. Its just too fun and convenient to organize your music on your computer as MP3s rather than as plain physical CDs. In fact, probably one of the only things keeping the computer hardware industry going is the fact that music ripping and burning takes huge hard-drives, faster machines, faster bus speeds, etc., creating growth. Oh, and by the way, if this isn't supported by Fair Use rights, along with space-shifting one's own content, then I don't know what is. I bet the DMCA will declare that software that bypasses this is illegal, but Fair Use definently supports this. This will be a great Fair Use Vs. DMCA court case, and I can't wait.
Gates should have been more paranoid about himself
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It's funny. Gates claimed that he and Microsoft followed the maxim that only the paranoid survive, and that you have to keep track of every possible enemy, even two guys in a garage. Unfortunately, he forgot that sometimes the greatest enemy is yourself.
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This is SO not going to work. People have become USED to taking their entire CD collections, ripping them into MP3s or some other format, and then using jukebox software to arrange and play them back. We all also listen to CDs at work, and what do we use? A computer, of course. Its just too fun and convenient to organize your music on your computer as MP3s rather than as plain physical CDs. In fact, probably one of the only things keeping the computer hardware industry going is the fact that music ripping and burning takes huge hard-drives, faster machines, faster bus speeds, etc., creating growth. Oh, and by the way, if this isn't supported by Fair Use rights, along with space-shifting one's own content, then I don't know what is. I bet the DMCA will declare that software that bypasses this is illegal, but Fair Use definently supports this. This will be a great Fair Use Vs. DMCA court case, and I can't wait.
It's funny. Gates claimed that he and Microsoft followed the maxim that only the paranoid survive, and that you have to keep track of every possible enemy, even two guys in a garage. Unfortunately, he forgot that sometimes the greatest enemy is yourself.