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rradina
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Re: The RIAA loves it
Like they can do that? Right. If you want to steal, er um, share music, you can do what I did when I was young. Get together with your friends. Each of you buys an album and the others make tape copies.
This will go on regardless of what anyone says or does until the availability of any device capable of recording an analog stream of audio is not available to the general public.
Even now, who can stop 10 friends from each buying a CD, using their sound card to digitize the analog signal, compress it to MP3 and then trade it with the others via e-mail, FTP or any old method that the 10 choose to use regardless of what the RIAA, MPAA or law enforcement agencies do? It's completely private, there's no way to track it and unless one of the 10 rats on everyone else, who would know or care?
The bottom line is that all of this will stop once the price of the music reaches a point where it's too cheap to cheat. It's clear we haven't reached that price just yet. We may never reach that price and if we don't, someone will always "break" the system to cheat. It's inevitable and there will never be a perfect system. There can only be a system that makes going around it, more costly than abiding by it. Right now this is the only real weapon that anyone has over how cheap, "too cheap to cheat" is. | |
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| said by rradina  :
Even now, who can stop 10 friends from each buying a CD, using their sound card to digitize the analog signal, compress it to MP3 and then trade it with the others via e-mail, FTP or any old method that the 10 choose to use regardless of what the RIAA, MPAA or law enforcement agencies do? It's completely private, there's no way to track it and unless one of the 10 rats on everyone else, who would know or care?
Exactly. As long as the consumer physically has the CD, or the file, there exists a way to distribute it illegally. All that they can do at this point is make that process more and more inconvenient, so much that "average JOE" can't do it.
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BoredofTrade
join:2003-06-29
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But I don't have any friends! Wah!  | |
rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO
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Even if they don't have the CD, the tape or the file in any manner that they know as a file, unless the RIAA funds some sort of digital cochlear implant into which we plug our music players, something has to eventually decrypt, decode and render an analog signal for our ears.
As soon as that signal is analog, it can be sampled, digitized, compressed and shared.
Is it as good as the original digital source? It won't matter on the average portable consumers buy. | |
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