magiccarpetride;615535 Wrote: > Such blatant lying is bound to force these businesses to eventually > close their shop.
Wow what a difference in the understanding of things digital there is between this forum and the Stereophile forums (to name but one). On that forum the members would be defending vendors such as HDTracks and Linn because, well after all they're part of the "high end" community. Greed is greed no matter how it chooses to disguise itself. The simple facts are: 1) The creation and distribution of digital audio files is far less costly, especially if the cost of making the recording has already been paid, as is the case with 40+ year old Rolling Stones recordings, then creating and distributing physical media. 2) Just about all consumer friendly digital formats are not secure and can be easily copied by a personal computer and distributed via the internet at little or no cost. 3) The laws of supply and demand dictate that the current pricing structure of almost all legal digital audio download sites (read paid download) is not sustainable and must either be revised or the sites will eventually go out of business. Notice the above three statements make no mention of copyright issues since the current copyright laws are outdated and their enforcement is well beyond the scope and resources, i.e. budgets, of law enforcement agencies and these laws are therefore no longer of any consequence. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86017 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
