I just can't wait to see the crash test dummies whacking themselves in the head with the Indestructable Sandwich. Which is harder? Sandwich or Dummy? Which bush is the sandwich hiding behind? And that three year fresh thing has to be a gimmick like you open a packet and pour "liquid fresh" on it (remember liquid smoke?)
(metacosm: I just printed it out and tore it to pieces.) But seriously, now that Sun is bringing their weight to the GNOME consortium, a gnome friendly implementation of things.net could spell some real trouble for Bill. Now THAT'S a good thing.
This Hollings bill, the support from major labels, and A+R (artist and repertoire) response to this
is the topic of discussion on Stereophile's online
website (http://www.stereophile.com) fairly often now. The audiophile position is that for one thing watermarking disks (one of the copy protection schemes) causes audible artifacts. Also at issue is the very substandard quality of mp3 recordings. Some people don't care about the sound quality difference, but frankly I'd rather pay for CD (or better - 24/96) quality than get mp3 for free. The problem with things like Hollings bill is it will allow record industry labels to get away with watermarking disks (which would violate European copyright standards - the artists have a "...right to the integrity of their work") and therefore shipping an inferior product to which there is no alternative. Systematically. My own agenda? The record companies are dinosaurs. It's time for a new paradigm.
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I just can't wait to see the crash test dummies whacking themselves in the head with the Indestructable Sandwich. Which is harder? Sandwich or Dummy? Which bush is the sandwich hiding behind? And that three year fresh thing has to be a gimmick like you open a packet and pour "liquid fresh" on it (remember liquid smoke?)
(metacosm: I just printed it out and tore it to pieces.) But seriously, now that Sun is bringing their weight to the GNOME consortium, a gnome friendly implementation of things .net could spell some real trouble for Bill. Now THAT'S a good thing.
This Hollings bill, the support from major labels, and A+R (artist and repertoire) response to this is the topic of discussion on Stereophile's online website (http://www.stereophile.com) fairly often now. The audiophile position is that for one thing watermarking disks (one of the copy protection schemes) causes audible artifacts. Also at issue is the very substandard quality of mp3 recordings. Some people don't care about the sound quality difference, but frankly I'd rather pay for CD (or better - 24/96) quality than get mp3 for free. The problem with things like Hollings bill is it will allow record industry labels to get away with watermarking disks (which would violate European copyright standards - the artists have a "...right to the integrity of their work") and therefore shipping an inferior product to which there is no alternative. Systematically. My own agenda? The record companies are dinosaurs. It's time for a new paradigm.