Sorry to say, but while your vinyl record may be durable, if your record player broke down you would be screwed. Vinyl record players are really expensive and difficult to find anymore.
My father has a huge collection of vinyl records that he accumulated in his youth. They sat in storage for years until around 1996 when I bought him a brand new record player. I had a hell of a time finding one and I think it cost me $400.
It would probably be much harder now to find such a setup for that price.
Why are so many hopping onto this downloaded music craze. I thought Apple Itunes, which looks like the field leader, was not making any profit at all, and was just using it as a tool to boost thier ipod sales. Does Walmart and mp3.com really think they fare much better?
I wonder what the people who passed this legislation were thinking. I can see the sense in forbidding the veiwing and distribution of a bootleg film, but can't see the grounds for outlawing the act of videotaping anything.
If movie companies can forbid someone from videotaping an event, I don't see how I couldn't argue for preventing someone from videotaping me.
I'm concerned for my own privacy. What are the movie companies concerned about outside the likely (but certainly not inevitable) illegal viewing and distribution of thier films? The viewing and distribution is the only concrete wrong that I can see in the process. Stick to enforcing that, or grant the movie companies this and give me the right to say "Stop monitering me!"
IANAL, but this should set a legal precedent that gives a person the right to fight for his privacy.
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Sorry to say, but while your vinyl record may be durable, if your record player broke down you would be screwed. Vinyl record players are really expensive and difficult to find anymore.
My father has a huge collection of vinyl records that he accumulated in his youth. They sat in storage for years until around 1996 when I bought him a brand new record player. I had a hell of a time finding one and I think it cost me $400.
It would probably be much harder now to find such a setup for that price.
Why are so many hopping onto this downloaded music craze. I thought Apple Itunes, which looks like the field leader, was not making any profit at all, and was just using it as a tool to boost thier ipod sales. Does Walmart and mp3.com really think they fare much better?
I wonder what the people who passed this legislation were thinking. I can see the sense in forbidding the veiwing and distribution of a bootleg film, but can't see the grounds for outlawing the act of videotaping anything. If movie companies can forbid someone from videotaping an event, I don't see how I couldn't argue for preventing someone from videotaping me. I'm concerned for my own privacy. What are the movie companies concerned about outside the likely (but certainly not inevitable) illegal viewing and distribution of thier films? The viewing and distribution is the only concrete wrong that I can see in the process. Stick to enforcing that, or grant the movie companies this and give me the right to say "Stop monitering me!" IANAL, but this should set a legal precedent that gives a person the right to fight for his privacy.