Deserve some kind of protection for your investment? When you're downloading
a 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>:
quoted 26 lines 5 or 6 years ago, my CD binder containing about 150 CD's was stolen out> 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.
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org