Why is the government so concerned about controlling children's access to porn latley? Have the children found a way to extract oil from internet porn?
That pic looks really scary. I mean headcrab scary. "Gordon, Get out of there!"
That's exactly what I was gonna say, as soon as I saw that picture I immediatley though of the first 5 minutes of Half Life. I wonder what came through this time...
So here is my situation. I'm a law abiding citizen, I don't download music from p2p apps, or copy it from friends and I don't share the music that I purchase. I purchase the CD myself rather than buy it on iTunes because I like to have a physical copy in the event of catastrophic data loss. I then copy it onto my iPod so I can take all my music with me on the subway to work. At that point the CD goes into a box in a safe place and is never used again unless I soemhow lose the data on my computer. I'm still only using one instance of these songs.
According to the RIAA in order for me to continue to behave as a law abiding citizen and not a "pirate" I must either:
1. Repurchase the 2,412 songs on my iPod from a digital music source for a $1 a piece which any math wizard can sum up be $2,412 I'd have to pay to legally listen to songs I already paid probalby more than that for already.
2. Carry around a portable cd player (which is bulky and can skip quite badly on a bumpy subway car)and a backpack of the 160 CDs that I own, increasing the likley hood of damaging them to the point of unplayabilty and increasing the risk of them getting lost or stolen. In the event that they are damaged or stolen I must repurchase them for a "resonable" price if I want to listen to them again. Average cd costs are about $16 an album now so that means 160 CDs X $16 = $2,560.
Either solution has me potentially paying around $2,500 to listen to the songs that I have already paid roughly $2,500 for in the first place. Yeah that's fair....in pretend land.
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Why is the government so concerned about controlling children's access to porn latley? Have the children found a way to extract oil from internet porn?
That pic looks really scary. I mean headcrab scary. "Gordon, Get out of there!"
That's exactly what I was gonna say, as soon as I saw that picture I immediatley though of the first 5 minutes of Half Life. I wonder what came through this time...
So here is my situation. I'm a law abiding citizen, I don't download music from p2p apps, or copy it from friends and I don't share the music that I purchase. I purchase the CD myself rather than buy it on iTunes because I like to have a physical copy in the event of catastrophic data loss. I then copy it onto my iPod so I can take all my music with me on the subway to work. At that point the CD goes into a box in a safe place and is never used again unless I soemhow lose the data on my computer. I'm still only using one instance of these songs.
According to the RIAA in order for me to continue to behave as a law abiding citizen and not a "pirate" I must either:
1. Repurchase the 2,412 songs on my iPod from a digital music source for a $1 a piece which any math wizard can sum up be $2,412 I'd have to pay to legally listen to songs I already paid probalby more than that for already.
2. Carry around a portable cd player (which is bulky and can skip quite badly on a bumpy subway car)and a backpack of the 160 CDs that I own, increasing the likley hood of damaging them to the point of unplayabilty and increasing the risk of them getting lost or stolen. In the event that they are damaged or stolen I must repurchase them for a "resonable" price if I want to listen to them again. Average cd costs are about $16 an album now so that means 160 CDs X $16 = $2,560.
Either solution has me potentially paying around $2,500 to listen to the songs that I have already paid roughly $2,500 for in the first place. Yeah that's fair....in pretend land.