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http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Vinyl-sales-up-as-music-lovers-get-fed-up-with-DRM.htmlIf this has already been posted here then I humbly beg forgiveness. The DRM situation is enough to make you think about restricting purchases to vinyl. Remember the articles on how the CDs are not lasting? They are showing signs of degrading? Well, how many of us here have records that we have owned and played for twenty, thirty and in my case almost forty years. The vinyl holds up well if treated correctly. And you can, and if you have the time should I guess, archive it to your hardrive just to keep the songs extra safe. And once you do that you can transport them anywhere. But then you guys knew that didn't you? Long Live Vinyl!
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referenced a few days ago, just digested two times - follow the links back.Ten percent of next-to-nothing is next-to next-to-nothing. People aren't buying USB turntables because they want to get back into vinyl - they're getting them so they can put the vinyl they have on their hard drives and iPods and, presumably, trade in or trash the 12-inchers.
I love vinyl and still buy it, but I have no illusions that it's making any kind of comeback. Music delivered on atoms is a dead issue; bytes are the way of the future (cf Nicholas Negroponte, "Being Digital".)
Curious now that Vinyl is on the way out even wuith us Diehards That we Get nonsense babbles about hoew vijnyl doen't degrade I claim Horsesh.t to that. MY records dslowly but audibly deteriorate afte a dozen or so playings It was Ever Thus Regardless of Stylus, and I've been doing this for over 40 years. What's changed? or are we becoming Delusional in our Dotages??
not that i don't love vinyl and hate DRM, but any DRM or copy control i have encountered (and it is my job to have encountered most) are still much easier to circumvent than digitizing my records."at least consumers can easily re-record their vinyl collection to CD or on their PC to place on their MP3 player." easily? i dunno about that.
it is also interesting to note that the major labels seemed to have abandoned the copy control of redbook CDs and are even looking to give up on the DRM arms race too!
i'm glad that vinyl sales are increasing, but i can't really believe it is because of the difficulties people are encountering with either DRM or copy control technologies.
...but I think many people associate vinyl with the good old days of music, when the record companies whined about sales lost to copying, but didn't infect your PC with a rootkit, slap a tax on blank media (regardless of what it's used for), track your listening habits, launch frivolous lawsuits against little kids and the elderly, or sell intentionally corrupted discs that don't play right.Sometimes it's nice to not be treated like a criminal.
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