The cost of sequencing and data analysis is actually quite low, and all publically funded (NSF/NIH) data should be made available to the public.
The best way to make sure that this data remains open source is to increase funding to national granting agencies like the National Science Foundation and the NIH.
Allofmp3.com is great, the best part is the free 'preview' of entire albumss if you are a VIP member. I've been listening to the top albums from Lists of Bests for free and learning about some great music that I have not heard before.
The downloads can be a bit on the slow side (sometimes as slow as 1kb) but I just use the download manager and let things go overnight. There are also a number of completely free albums on the site, and the paid online encoding is great.
I've been a subscriber of Emusic.com for a few months now, but I don't like the limit of 90 songs per month. I am also not willing to pay $0.99 per song from iTunes, or even $0.88 a song from Walmart.
I've recently discovered the Russian website www.allofmp3.com that allows downloads from $0.01 per meg of mustic and it appears on the surface to be legit. You can even pay for content using paypay so you don't need to worry about the Russian mafia hijacking your account number. (Just your regular paypal problems).
A recent interview with the content manager makes it appear that this site is legal, and it looks like RIAA has nothinng to say about the site. A search on the RIAA web site for allofmp3.com returns zero hits, and doing some searching for the RIAA view of all0fmp3.com also gives no results.
Have other slashdotters had experience with this site? What is your opinion of its legality?
I am afraid that as costs come down you may be right. Combine this with low cost sound systems and you have a recipe for complete madness.
This sort of thing has been explored in the Minority Report Movie, and to some extend in Neal Stephenson's 'The Diamond Age'.
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The cost of sequencing and data analysis is actually quite low, and all publically funded (NSF/NIH) data should be made available to the public.
The best way to make sure that this data remains open source is to increase funding to national granting agencies like the National Science Foundation and the NIH.
It only takes one.
The downloads can be a bit on the slow side (sometimes as slow as 1kb) but I just use the download manager and let things go overnight. There are also a number of completely free albums on the site, and the paid online encoding is great.
I've recently discovered the Russian website www.allofmp3.com that allows downloads from $0.01 per meg of mustic and it appears on the surface to be legit. You can even pay for content using paypay so you don't need to worry about the Russian mafia hijacking your account number. (Just your regular paypal problems).
A recent interview with the content manager makes it appear that this site is legal, and it looks like RIAA has nothinng to say about the site. A search on the RIAA web site for allofmp3.com returns zero hits, and doing some searching for the RIAA view of all0fmp3.com also gives no results.
Have other slashdotters had experience with this site? What is your opinion of its legality?
I am afraid that as costs come down you may be right. Combine this with low cost sound systems and you have a recipe for complete madness. This sort of thing has been explored in the Minority Report Movie, and to some extend in Neal Stephenson's 'The Diamond Age'.