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  1. Comment - U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against P2P

    (Jun 27, 2005 - 1:01 PM)

    I hear ya, but you want to personally be the one to put that to the test against big business million dollor legal teams?

    This is a really bad decision. This is not the end of this. There will be continual chipping away at this till no one will remember what the Betamax Ruling even was.

    They are running the same playbook they have always done. Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip ....

    sigh...

  2. Comment - Virgin Joins Online Music Fray

    (Oct 5, 2004 - 11:14 PM)

    My beef with any online music store is in the quality of music for the price; the quality is not CD quality. CDs give full "CD quality" and you can choose one or more bitrates to sample them down if you wish and still have the CD quality version for another day. CDs are still too expensive for what you are getting by comparison to other forms of media such as DVD movies.

    Most online music stores are charging from $.88 to $.99 (or more) per song or $10 (or more) per album. Certainly Virgin does that one better with their monthly subscription price and it would be tempting were it not for their reputation and DRM, BUT then my dander gets in an uproar because it's only available in WMP format.

    And even if they did it in the open source OGG format, I would not buy into anything with DRM built in. If I want a digital version of a CD or any song, I would sooner buy the album on CD (as expensive as they are) and rip it myself to high quality mp3, and be able put it on any computer in my house, or on a CD I can listen to in my car or anywhere else for that matter; plus I won't lose the rights to play them if I forget to backup their licenses when Murphy's Law is in full spring, or if my computer goes down due to some nefarious piece of spyware/malware, or viruses, etc, or if I decide to reinstall my OS because of registry rot, or due to an uncompatibility between OSes due to an OS upgrade or because some of my computers are using Linux/UNIX or Mac, or for any other of a bazillion reasons that could come up.

    Just my two cents. ;-)