On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Static Beats wrote:
quoted 13 lines <rant>> <rant>
> Well I'm sure glad I didn't spend $400 on an MP3 jukebox !
>
> What about that whole aspect of the debate?
> There are products being sold on the market today for playing MP3's.
> If CD's are built to disable this then isn't it disabling another
>sector of the marketplace as well? Are we to assume that the only people
> creating MP3's are those with 'original content'. Could they fill up
> 2gigs on a jukebox with it?
>
> WTF?
>
> What's the point?
I definitely agree with this... I forget which Illuminati or powers that
be are at the forefront of all this copyrighted CD nonsense, but it is
ridiculous that these same powers could also be indirectly behind
marketing the same Mp3 playing gadgets that would be rendered moot
by the former anyway.
On one hand, one argument offered behind copyright CDs is that it curbs
the speed at which music is copied more than prevent it altogether.
On the other hand, what's the point of trying to retard the inevitable?
(CDplayer --> audio out --> audio in --> computer.... no digital
watermarking can prevent this method of copying... whatever slight
resampling differences occur)
quoted 4 lines Personally, although I love the access to such a wide range of music> Personally, although I love the access to such a wide range of music
>I'm getting really sick of the lack of fidelity in a 128kbps MP3. It does
>not sound rich. It sounds dull. To me it is just a high-quality preview.
>If I actually like the album I'll just go out and buy it.
Heh. If I'm not mistaken, wasn't this one of the main motifs of having a
compressed, downloadable music file format? I'm not an RIAA apologist --
but I think it would be naive to think that Mp3s were created for the
purpose of digitally archiving music at high quality. (Not to call you
one of those naive people, Mista Beats... just speaking rhetorically)
quoted 2 lines </rant>>
> </rant>
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