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In Reply to: RE: The MP3 is finally dead posted by jaydacus on May 17, 2017 at 05:43:16
I think you are absolutely correct. Mp3s where a solution for the technical environment they operated in. They are now as obsolete as the dial up modems and small hard drives they were used in conjunction with.
I've always been a late adopter. I had friends that were deep into computers and Napster at the time you reference. To me computers and the internet were useless until they reached a certain level of advancement. I know I missed out on a lot, but I also didn't have to watch the screen take minutes to load a webpage.
I tried P2P sharing a couple of times, but found I picked up more viruses than anything useful, so I shied away from that, and have never tried bit torrent sites. To be honest the "dark web" scares me a little, and I have no wish to see the things that are there.
Now we are entering the time of hi-res downloads. I don't mind paying the money really. Yes I have bought the same music many times over, but the record companies are finally offering what I consider a superior product, so I don't really begrudge paying a premium for it, and they are asking top dollar to be sure. Hopefully internet speeds will keep getting faster and one day streaming 24/192 will be an everyday occurrence. My internet speeds are not there yet.
To get deep for a second, I think we are at the closing end of the golden age of the internet. TPTB have finally figured out what a threat it is to them, and they are starting to take steps to censor it. Companies like Google, FB, twitter, reddit, youtube, and all the other major players are doing exactly as they have been instructed; censor incorrect thought, and scrub it's existence away. Google is nobody's friend. It will be easy for TPTB because so much ownership has now been concentrated in so few hands. It may be in the next decade that free-thinkers and dissidents will have to move to the dark web to be able to communicate with each other. I hope not.
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I'll just add that the elephant in the room is advertising. Advertising on the Internet - especially video clips, along with data collection, consume a large portion of the bandwidth for the average user. In professional environments/applications, it's not such a big deal, since they're not "surfing" sites with advertising, but for the millions and millions and millions of home users around the world, it's a big deal and affects their effective connection performance. There's currently a "race" to build faster (so-called "5G") networks and gigabit-per-second speeds. This is largely due to video uploading/downloading/streaming, but also to facilitate even more sophisticated and pervasive video advertising.
I remember back in the mid-nineties, when it became clear that the Internet would develop as a "free" service driven by advertising, with only a small monthly access fee. Here we are.
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I'm probably the only person on this site who doesn't use AdBlock, but that is about to change.
On the home computer it doesn't bother me so much, but the pop up video ads on my cellphone do, and I think they use up my data allowance, which is probably their real function in the first place. Somehow in the span of a couple of months my data usage went from almost nothing to being the same as my niece who streams music. Nothing else about my net surfing changed.
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"and I think they use up my data allowance, which is probably their real function in the first place"
Actually I think they are buying influence. I remember someone getting killed due to a mistake on the power company's part and all the sudden you saw ads for the electric company splattered across all the news shows in town. In most places around here they had/have a monopoly. Why should they spend the money on ads ? Those TV ads are very expensive.
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