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RE: The basic problem

"First is a download. That means you own nothing, and have nothing, including responsibility. (you need not clean it, take care of it etc... I understand having no responsibility is very popular these days)"

I have hundreds of paid downloads as well as original recordings that I have mastered. These take up Terabytes of storage. These recordings are quite real, but they depend on my continual responsibility to maintain my computing equipment, keep backup copies, etc... Every day I run a file sync program over my network to make sure that the on-line backups are current. Periodically I copy the library to hard drives that reside in a safe deposit box. Every month I scan each on-line drive to see if all of its data is still good and to correct marginal data. In the event a drive starts being unreliable I swap it out and replace it. Most recently I replaced a failed fan on one of my computers.

It's not true that I have nothing. I have the ability to play this music anytime I wish. In that regard it's no different than the situation with physical CDs or LPs, except that all of my computer equipment takes up considerably less space than the physical media would.


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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