P2P networks allow you to realize prior to dropping $20 for a CD, that it's garbage and you don't want it. Perhaps this is a big part of the $2 billion dollars missing in their revenue stream?
Truth be told, P2P helps good artists and good music reach the world in ways it never would. I can see why it scares the Dixie Chicks.
However it lacks controls to keep some people honest and to account on a piece of paper the title of "biggest label". It comes down to a bloated industry trying to float in the safety it has garnered for years.
I suspect more developers would be coding their pages for wireless devices if it were a simple task. CSS makes it fairly straight-forward, but there are very few nice WAP browsers for the desktop.
There's a project called Mobilizer but it's development activity is slow if anything. More work in this area will be necessary before any real progress will be seen.
If I buy something, I want the right to use it. If an individual entity or company wants to control my rights, they can't have my money. That's the choice we have as consumers.
Fair use rights are imperitive. For example, my right to take a song from a cassette and put it on a CD so I could listen to it in my car or a friend's car, or to play it if I threw a party, or to play it under Linux or Windows or my MP3 player.
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P2P networks allow you to realize prior to dropping $20 for a CD, that it's garbage and you don't want it. Perhaps this is a big part of the $2 billion dollars missing in their revenue stream?
Truth be told, P2P helps good artists and good music reach the world in ways it never would. I can see why it scares the Dixie Chicks.
However it lacks controls to keep some people honest and to account on a piece of paper the title of "biggest label". It comes down to a bloated industry trying to float in the safety it has garnered for years.
Your baby is SO passé.
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I suspect more developers would be coding their pages for wireless devices if it were a simple task. CSS makes it fairly straight-forward, but there are very few nice WAP browsers for the desktop. There's a project called Mobilizer but it's development activity is slow if anything. More work in this area will be necessary before any real progress will be seen.
If I buy something, I want the right to use it. If an individual entity or company wants to control my rights, they can't have my money. That's the choice we have as consumers.
Fair use rights are imperitive. For example, my right to take a song from a cassette and put it on a CD so I could listen to it in my car or a friend's car, or to play it if I threw a party, or to play it under Linux or Windows or my MP3 player.
I'm an American and I live like one.