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In Reply to: RE: He may not have read the article and was commenting on what you said posted by rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com on April 17, 2014 at 09:20:33
My synopsis, and the article, had precious little to do with iTunes. iTunes was mentioned as the the original entity that started moving folks away from physical product.Buying crappy records in our youth? Well..no shame in that! I have given away more albums than some on this board even own.
His point was..that if someone dies with a large Lp or CD collection, the heirs can happily enjoy that collection for the duration of their, lives, give it away, or sell it.
If that same person dies with hard drive filled with downloaded albums..too bad, the law says it cannot be passed on or given away and certainly not resold.
There are several other points he makes too. Like the fact that essentially you are "renting" the music files until you croak.
Free downloads on Russian sites? Give me a link!
Edits: 04/17/14Follow Ups:
"If that same person dies with hard drive filled with downloaded albums..too bad, the law says it cannot be passed on
Anyone who cares about such a stupid law gets exactly what he deserves.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Saves the widow a trip to the thrift store or the dump. ;-)
I wonder what will happen with my gear when I am dead and what a pain in the ass it will likely be to whomever gets stuck clearing out my household.
I would love to give it to someone but I get the feeling no one would want it.
You are 100% correct. That is why I go out of my way to stick to those politicians who wrote the law as proxies of the entertainment and media conglomerates.
I just thought you were a little harsh.
There are lots of those places in Russia. You can get just about anything you want. I was told about them and they are interesting but I have found, strangely enough, that it is so much trouble to turn these downloads into something I can use that I would rather just spend the money! The old save you money waste your time conundrum ...
Most of the folks these days have such a strange view of value we may be the anachronistic ones in thinking one should have something you can hold in your hands. I am an LP guy and though I need reading glasses to read the jacket these days I like the idea that the best of my collection does have artistic and intrinsic value. I can see someone one hundred years from today wanting my LPs - I cannot imagine the same for any CD I own.
I am older than Chris so those records mentioned were never considered for purchase by me. I guess I was in a lucky period where there were more good records available than I had the money to purchase them. I have all but six or seven of every record I ever purchased. Not including the Beatles records my parents bought for me. Long ago destroyed ...
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