ralphpnj;504228 Wrote: > (think file sharing and other forms of downloading). <snip> still think > of their music as "albums" and need physical media, whether CDs or LPs, > to be able to play these recordings.
I dunno about that... Back in the day, "ripping" would have been the technological equivalent of recording your friends album onto cassette. We did this all the time. And in those day's the RIAA used to moan and bitch about that as well. Of course anybody who has used a lot of cassette tapes knows how fragile and easily ruined those can be, and of course there was some loss in fidelity as well, so the record companies didn't push as hard against these things as they might have. It wasn't until it became cheaper to rip and burn a full resolution CD in your basement, that was just as good as their product, but at a tenth the price that they became really upset! Somewhere however, things have since gone wrong, with people intentionally downgrading to Cassette Tape/MP3 sound quality for convenience.... -- DCtoDaylight Audiophile wish list: Zero Distortion, Infinite Signal to Noise Ratio, and a Bandwidth from DC to Daylight ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DCtoDaylight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72852 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
