When I was talking about a protection for your investment, I was referring to buying digital music legally from Bleep.com. Of course its completely ridiculous to expect some kind of protection in an investment that you never made (i.e. illegally downloading music). Its a hairy issue and thats why its interesting to discuss.
-Aaron
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From: "Alan R. Lucas" <arlucas@telerama.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:42 am
Subject: Re: [idm] Bleep
quoted 55 lines Deserve some kind of protection for your investment? When you're> Deserve some kind of protection for your investment? When you're
> downloadinga bunch of your music from Soulseek? Don't those
> artists deserve some
> compensation for their work?
>
> And I hate to say it, but if you have a big, important project
> that you're
> working on, you should be making periodic backups.
>
>
> Quoting Aaron D Meyers <adm226@nyu.edu>:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
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