Well, the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport is dominated by one major airline which artificially sets the prices 3-4 times higher. It is the most expensive airport to fly from in the country. The same flights with an extra connection into Cincinnati from a nearby airport often costs only a third of the price.
They have yet to be slapped down hard
On the other hand, the dominant airline responsible is having all sorts of financial issues including bankruptcy. The only way to remedy the music industry is to bankrupt those responsible.
Sorry, I realized that it was probably a joke. Where I live people actually would take that statement seriously, which is a tragedy. My comment was intended towards those people (who admittedly are probably a rarity on/.), not the author.
"it's safer to just shut up; don't make any waves. It's one of the small prices we have to pay for freedom in this country."
So we should willfully give up our freedoms in order to preserve them? Sure, we all have our freedoms as long as we don't actually exercise them... Just thought I would point out the tragedy of this statement. Personally, I think we should focus on individual rights before we start crying about corporate rights, but thats just me.
"Amazon's DRM-free MP3s will free customers to play their music on virtually any of their personal devices and burn songs to CDs for personal use."
I love how we as a society now have to specify that our MP3s are "DRM-free" just like we do with food products. Steroid-free, DDT-free, pesticide-free... And then they go on to specify all the wonderful capabilities of DRM-free MP3s.
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Well, the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport is dominated by one major airline which artificially sets the prices 3-4 times higher. It is the most expensive airport to fly from in the country. The same flights with an extra connection into Cincinnati from a nearby airport often costs only a third of the price.
They have yet to be slapped down hard
On the other hand, the dominant airline responsible is having all sorts of financial issues including bankruptcy. The only way to remedy the music industry is to bankrupt those responsible.
Sorry, I realized that it was probably a joke. Where I live people actually would take that statement seriously, which is a tragedy. My comment was intended towards those people (who admittedly are probably a rarity on /.), not the author.
"it's safer to just shut up; don't make any waves. It's one of the small prices we have to pay for freedom in this country." So we should willfully give up our freedoms in order to preserve them? Sure, we all have our freedoms as long as we don't actually exercise them... Just thought I would point out the tragedy of this statement. Personally, I think we should focus on individual rights before we start crying about corporate rights, but thats just me.
"Amazon's DRM-free MP3s will free customers to play their music on virtually any of their personal devices and burn songs to CDs for personal use." I love how we as a society now have to specify that our MP3s are "DRM-free" just like we do with food products. Steroid-free, DDT-free, pesticide-free... And then they go on to specify all the wonderful capabilities of DRM-free MP3s.