yes, the patern is that I should own and be able to use the products I purchase. I said it this way partly to distinguish that I don't require music that allows me to share it. I want to be able to use it for myself. If I wanted it to allow music I purchased to play on all of my friends devices any time I or one of my friends wants to hear it, its a totaly different situation.
You have a good point about artists making a living, but what I don't think you consider is that some of us simply will not tollerate the lack of freedom in the products we purchase.I don't have a problem with buying music, I have a problem with how it is sold. If I want "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" from Napster, I can't buy just the song, I have to buy all 9 songs on the CD. Songs are.99 each so the whole CD is $9, right? No, I have to pay $16 for the whole thing. I can buy it at Wal-Mart for about the same price. Why would I accept buying a digital form of the CD that had no shipping costs, virtualy no storage costs, no cost for a disk, no cost to print the book with lyric/pictures/etc, no cost of a jewel case, and no cost of storing the disk on a shelf waiting for it to sell. The digital version also isn't easily transferable between the devices I own. I use Linux for everything, but no one wants to allow Linux to have access to digital music. I have very little experience with iTunes, but its music is also DRMed and anti-Linux. Until the music industry sells music without DRM or DRM that will allow me to play my music on every device I own any time I want, I won't buy music. I listen to the radio or use pandora.com for all of my musc needs.
I work at a computer repair company a few miles away from a Best Buy. The geek squad sends people to us, sometimes intentionally, and sometimes when they "work" on the computer for two weeks, charge $100+, and send computer home without fixing it. Ever since they got caught using pirated software they've started sending more customers to us when they can't fix the computer without their pirated software. Overall I like the Geek Squad to be down the street.
have been my main problems with ebooks and downloadable music. I believe that any downloadable media needs to be cheaper than the one on the shelf. eBooks/MP3s don't have shipping, storage, stocking or any of the usual costs, and when they cost the same its because they company selling them is greedy. But recently I've seen DRM and costs start to change. I purchased Pro C# 2005 and the.NET 2.0 Platform, dead tree edition and you can go to the website and when you answer a question about the book, (ex. last word on page 123) you get a free PDF encrypted with your email address as the password. This very low level of DRM works well because almost anything can read PDFs with standard encryption. I keep my 1000+ page hardback book at home and carry my PDF on my iPaq. Since Apress is the only company I've seen doing this, they're now my prefered publisher.
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yes, the patern is that I should own and be able to use the products I purchase. I said it this way partly to distinguish that I don't require music that allows me to share it. I want to be able to use it for myself. If I wanted it to allow music I purchased to play on all of my friends devices any time I or one of my friends wants to hear it, its a totaly different situation.
You have a good point about artists making a living, but what I don't think you consider is that some of us simply will not tollerate the lack of freedom in the products we purchase.I don't have a problem with buying music, I have a problem with how it is sold. If I want "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" from Napster, I can't buy just the song, I have to buy all 9 songs on the CD. Songs are .99 each so the whole CD is $9, right? No, I have to pay $16 for the whole thing. I can buy it at Wal-Mart for about the same price. Why would I accept buying a digital form of the CD that had no shipping costs, virtualy no storage costs, no cost for a disk, no cost to print the book with lyric/pictures/etc, no cost of a jewel case, and no cost of storing the disk on a shelf waiting for it to sell. The digital version also isn't easily transferable between the devices I own. I use Linux for everything, but no one wants to allow Linux to have access to digital music. I have very little experience with iTunes, but its music is also DRMed and anti-Linux. Until the music industry sells music without DRM or DRM that will allow me to play my music on every device I own any time I want, I won't buy music. I listen to the radio or use pandora.com for all of my musc needs.
I don't understand why banning liquids and gells make the flight safer. Can anyone explain this.
I work at a computer repair company a few miles away from a Best Buy. The geek squad sends people to us, sometimes intentionally, and sometimes when they "work" on the computer for two weeks, charge $100+, and send computer home without fixing it. Ever since they got caught using pirated software they've started sending more customers to us when they can't fix the computer without their pirated software. Overall I like the Geek Squad to be down the street.
have been my main problems with ebooks and downloadable music. I believe that any downloadable media needs to be cheaper than the one on the shelf. eBooks/MP3s don't have shipping, storage, stocking or any of the usual costs, and when they cost the same its because they company selling them is greedy. But recently I've seen DRM and costs start to change. I purchased Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform, dead tree edition and you can go to the website and when you answer a question about the book, (ex. last word on page 123) you get a free PDF encrypted with your email address as the password. This very low level of DRM works well because almost anything can read PDFs with standard encryption. I keep my 1000+ page hardback book at home and carry my PDF on my iPaq. Since Apress is the only company I've seen doing this, they're now my prefered publisher.