I dunno man, I've been buying a lot of US dollars to deal with my record-collecting hobby, and the US dollar has gone from $1.62 Canadian at its peak to around $1.39 right now. If the US currency keeps turfing like this, soon *we'll* be talking about getting couch change to go the US!
We have two. That's not so bad. South Africa has 11.
I find French *much* easier to understand than a Scottish/Cornish dialect, personally. But there ya go, different strokes for different folks.
Of course, Québécois (or more confounding yet, Acadian) French is as puzzling to French-speaking Europeans as the densest Glaswegian brogue would be to a housewife from Kansas.
that's the most insightful post i've read all day. the large majority of pro-file-sharing and anti-RIAA/.ers are just leeches who want free shit. the whole pity-the-poor-artistes rhetoric is usually just an unconscious or semi-conscious attempt by said leeches to justify their actions to themselves.
I keep seeing this argument on/. a lot and I simply feel that is not the case.
I'll grant that things like Napster were all about the kiddies getting their fr33 m3t4llik4 MP3z, but I've found P2P to be an amazing experience, and quite the contrary of leeches "trying to get free shit".
Most of the guys I talk to on Soulseek are huge music fans and buy legitimate music as well as downloading a lot of material. A lot of the stuff being shared is rare as hell. Hey, I would buy every Sun Ra LP if I could, but with 200+ releases and most of them unreissued, out of print and fetching hundreds of dollars a pop on eBay, I'm glad someone's offering this stuff for me to download. I've both bought plenty of stuff I have downloaded legitimately as well, as have many people I know.
Since I started buying music in my late teens, I've probably spent enough on LEGITIMATE recordings to be driving a new 7-series BMW right now. Most serious peer-to-peer heads are in a similar boat. The kneejerk "you are just leeches" thing is getting a little old. It's the same crap that happened when home taping came along. Did it kill music? NO. Sheesh people, get over it already.
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I dunno man, I've been buying a lot of US dollars to deal with my record-collecting hobby, and the US dollar has gone from $1.62 Canadian at its peak to around $1.39 right now. If the US currency keeps turfing like this, soon *we'll* be talking about getting couch change to go the US!
We have two. That's not so bad. South Africa has 11.
I find French *much* easier to understand than a Scottish/Cornish dialect, personally. But there ya go, different strokes for different folks.
Of course, Québécois (or more confounding yet, Acadian) French is as puzzling to French-speaking Europeans as the densest Glaswegian brogue would be to a housewife from Kansas.
that's the most insightful post i've read all day. the large majority of pro-file-sharing and anti-RIAA /.ers are just leeches who want free shit. the whole pity-the-poor-artistes rhetoric is usually just an unconscious or semi-conscious attempt by said leeches to justify their actions to themselves.
I keep seeing this argument on /. a lot and I simply feel that is not the case.
I'll grant that things like Napster were all about the kiddies getting their fr33 m3t4llik4 MP3z, but I've found P2P to be an amazing experience, and quite the contrary of leeches "trying to get free shit".
Most of the guys I talk to on Soulseek are huge music fans and buy legitimate music as well as downloading a lot of material. A lot of the stuff being shared is rare as hell. Hey, I would buy every Sun Ra LP if I could, but with 200+ releases and most of them unreissued, out of print and fetching hundreds of dollars a pop on eBay, I'm glad someone's offering this stuff for me to download. I've both bought plenty of stuff I have downloaded legitimately as well, as have many people I know.
Since I started buying music in my late teens, I've probably spent enough on LEGITIMATE recordings to be driving a new 7-series BMW right now. Most serious peer-to-peer heads are in a similar boat. The kneejerk "you are just leeches" thing is getting a little old. It's the same crap that happened when home taping came along. Did it kill music? NO. Sheesh people, get over it already.