willyhoops;199094 Wrote: > For the record i am not a media company stooge but i do work in finance > and have a more sensible view of the world that most people who think > big business is all evil etc (except of course the companies they work > for or have invested in), and drm can't be stopped even though we know, > for example, that the fbi can stop child porn on the net and the us > government have stopped online gambling. > > Most of all i am disgusted at how much potential there is in the > squeezebox and yet how dreadful the reality is. i spent three weeks > writing a tagging program powerful enough for my needs and i am buying > a $700 robotic arm to scan my cd collection. my girlfriend keeps says > "William why are you doing all this stuff... Obviously they are going > to come up with a better way". I keep saying to her not if the general > public don't wake up to the importance of drm. > > I know paying for music will be a bit of a bummer but if we start > buying it again the quality will go up and the price will go down so it > will be worth it! > > And just so you know I don't work for the RIAA I will happily admit > that after scanning my cds i give them to friends and I regularly rip > my friends CDs and give them a copy of my collection. It's a nightmare > for the industry but until the fools build a decent DRM and lock it > down with laws we may as well all join the party.
willyhoops;199095 Wrote: > Ps I don't normally answer silly points but SACD is not taking off > because the economies of upgrading all our CD players don't make sense > and we don't want physical media in the future anyway. Ha! Now I see it. I thought it was a joke earlier but there was enough to make me doubt it; now I know you're trolling. Too much evidence: the belief that child porn and online gambling has been stopped; the three weeks and $700; the by-again-just-this-once argument previously used for the CD; the fact that your argument against SACD is exactly the same as the one against the new super DRM system. I was taken in. Well done. -- smst ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
