5 or 6 years ago, my CD binder containing about 150 CD's was stolen out of my car. Luckily, it was covered by my parents' home-owner's insurance. So even though I had to cough up a handsome $500 deductable and the process of replacing CD's and sending in receipts was somewhat arduous, I bounced back.
More recently, this last April, when I was living in this rather shitty apartment, some kind of freakish power surge left my hard drive completely fried, all data unrecoverable. I lost a project I'd been working on for about 4 months and had put many hours of work into that I'd never get back. Additionally, I had a sizeable collection of mp3's I'd downloaded from Soulseek that I'd lost too. In the end, I got most of the mp3's I wanted back. Guess how I did it? Soulseek! The point is, if you are going to buy digital music, just because it doesn't have the same physicallity of a CD or record, that doesn't mean that you don't deserve some kind of protection in your investment and I feel like Bleep.com would be in a good position to do it. It would make it a way more attractive service if I knew I could access anything I'd gotten from Bleep.com at any computer, anytime.
-Aaron
P.S. Let's not talk about how I should have backed up my computer before that disaster in April. Its a bitter memory and I'll never make that mistake again.
----- Original Message -----
From: Eggy Toast <eggy@eggtastic.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:26 am
Subject: Re: [idm] Bleep
quoted 35 lines Aaron D Meyers said:>
> Aaron D Meyers said:
> > Derek,
> >
> > Its nice to play the devil's advocate and all, but I think it
> would give
> > a lot of people peace of mind to know that in case their hard drive
> > crashes or any other such disaster takes place, they could easily
> > replace the music they have purchased. And if we're gonna take
> > everything Warp says about Bleep at face value, then we can't
> assume its
> > a security measure against people letting others use their
> account to
> > download all their licensed music. See this exceprt from the
> faq: "We
> > believe that most people like to be treated as customers and not
> > potential criminals".
>
> I suppose. I wish normal CD stores did the same thing, in case of
> theftor fire I could just go back to the store and say "hey, I
> bought this CD
> already, give me another copy!"
>
> derek
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