Ummmm - is it because we play music all the time, and because the file sizes for your typical MP3 are so small, that even a 56k connection can amass a sizable collection in a relatively short time?
Sorry - the answer seemed obvious. That and with most media players automatically retrieving tags for the songs - easy to see which ones you are missing too, can set up to play by genre, artist, album - a friggen jukebox! Who wants to pay for a 100 disc cd-changer anymore and get the same sort of things you get out of any one of the media players out there. F that. I can play by artist, genre, personalized playlists of more songs than one of those hurking monsters - and I don't have to worry about a scratched cd anymore, the machine busting on me. It's all good.
Movies are harder to download - not much so with a nice connection, but slower nevertheless. It's becoming more of an issue though in the last year or so with more people hopping on broadband. Might see the Movie industry adopt the same stronghold tactics the music industry soon enough. But you know what? Good DVDs are totally worth buying, especially all the features jammed on in. I wet my pants with the Fellowship special edition, and can't wait for the two towers special edition. Ya sure - you can copy a dvd, but you need the original in some way to do it. Rent or borrow it is the only way to get all the features. I don't see too many 5gb isos out there for movies - mostly crappy divx files (though I have seen a few good ones). I've made some rather high quality divx files, but again - a good dvd has a lot of features that you can't get in divx.
Now an MP3? Hell - you get it all in a nice small filesize portable just about everywhere now. The price that the RIAA expects me to pay for a CD is a total ripoff. CDs are dead anyhow - about to go the way of the LP, the 8-track, and the cassette. Most of our future is going to be wrapped up in files as a far as music goes. It's all going to be about files. Files files files. There really is no other "format" you can predict for the future.
Every copy protection will be broken by someone - eventually. DVD saw it. Every game publisher has to deal with things like CD-Clone or Alchohol or whatever the years best copy protection scheme is out there.
You can not regulate the behavior of 3 billion people. Too many countries. Sure - pass laws in the U.S. - think scandinavia is gonna care? Think a German is gonna blink an eye? The same goes in reverse - think the guy who really wants to play that new Japanese game is gonna care about the laws over there? Sorry - the RIAA got smacked in the face by the internet - but that's how it goes. DeBeers is about to get smacked in the face with companies able to mass-produce diamonds of exceptional quality and size. I asked my wife - would you rather have a 3 carat stone you could buy for 50 bucks, or a 1/2 carat for 2000. She said - are you nuts? She doesn't care about the fact it was man-made - its a diamond.
I don't know what the RIAA expects us as a whole to say anymore - but whatever it is they want, it's just not going to happen. Better to accept it now and get on with it. I think we've screamed enough the business model needs to be changed - but they find it unacceptable. Sorry - but that's how it is. I think Itunes and a few other sites have the right idea - but it's still not going to be enough. Ya, I've heard all about M$ and the upcoming protection schemes to files - but what's to stop everyone to simply change OSs? Or it being circumvented? Or sales slump? Get the word out that people are sticking with XP, NT, 98, because they don't want such restrictions and you think Microsoft is going to care about the RIAA? Microsoft is about Money. Linux is on a good role despite what SCO says - and if Linux provides the community with everything they want minus the restrictions - well, I could very well see that as killing M$ - and I don't see that happening.
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Ummmm - is it because we play music all the time, and because the file sizes for your typical MP3 are so small, that even a 56k connection can amass a sizable collection in a relatively short time? Sorry - the answer seemed obvious. That and with most media players automatically retrieving tags for the songs - easy to see which ones you are missing too, can set up to play by genre, artist, album - a friggen jukebox! Who wants to pay for a 100 disc cd-changer anymore and get the same sort of things you get out of any one of the media players out there. F that. I can play by artist, genre, personalized playlists of more songs than one of those hurking monsters - and I don't have to worry about a scratched cd anymore, the machine busting on me. It's all good. Movies are harder to download - not much so with a nice connection, but slower nevertheless. It's becoming more of an issue though in the last year or so with more people hopping on broadband. Might see the Movie industry adopt the same stronghold tactics the music industry soon enough. But you know what? Good DVDs are totally worth buying, especially all the features jammed on in. I wet my pants with the Fellowship special edition, and can't wait for the two towers special edition. Ya sure - you can copy a dvd, but you need the original in some way to do it. Rent or borrow it is the only way to get all the features. I don't see too many 5gb isos out there for movies - mostly crappy divx files (though I have seen a few good ones). I've made some rather high quality divx files, but again - a good dvd has a lot of features that you can't get in divx. Now an MP3? Hell - you get it all in a nice small filesize portable just about everywhere now. The price that the RIAA expects me to pay for a CD is a total ripoff. CDs are dead anyhow - about to go the way of the LP, the 8-track, and the cassette. Most of our future is going to be wrapped up in files as a far as music goes. It's all going to be about files. Files files files. There really is no other "format" you can predict for the future. Every copy protection will be broken by someone - eventually. DVD saw it. Every game publisher has to deal with things like CD-Clone or Alchohol or whatever the years best copy protection scheme is out there. You can not regulate the behavior of 3 billion people. Too many countries. Sure - pass laws in the U.S. - think scandinavia is gonna care? Think a German is gonna blink an eye? The same goes in reverse - think the guy who really wants to play that new Japanese game is gonna care about the laws over there? Sorry - the RIAA got smacked in the face by the internet - but that's how it goes. DeBeers is about to get smacked in the face with companies able to mass-produce diamonds of exceptional quality and size. I asked my wife - would you rather have a 3 carat stone you could buy for 50 bucks, or a 1/2 carat for 2000. She said - are you nuts? She doesn't care about the fact it was man-made - its a diamond. I don't know what the RIAA expects us as a whole to say anymore - but whatever it is they want, it's just not going to happen. Better to accept it now and get on with it. I think we've screamed enough the business model needs to be changed - but they find it unacceptable. Sorry - but that's how it is. I think Itunes and a few other sites have the right idea - but it's still not going to be enough. Ya, I've heard all about M$ and the upcoming protection schemes to files - but what's to stop everyone to simply change OSs? Or it being circumvented? Or sales slump? Get the word out that people are sticking with XP, NT, 98, because they don't want such restrictions and you think Microsoft is going to care about the RIAA? Microsoft is about Money. Linux is on a good role despite what SCO says - and if Linux provides the community with everything they want minus the restrictions - well, I could very well see that as killing M$ - and I don't see that happening.