yay another article post
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=692
I swear geek articles are becoming my reason to post. Anyways this is not that interesting an article actually, most people probably know most of what it says, I'm just giving you the footnotes early. what was interesting tho was that second to last paragraph, the quote. Its a really good point I never thought of it that way. I mean I would NEVER buy DCMAed music, I'm sorry not gonna happen. While i always thought is was cool that schools were covering your music cost, I never realised I was still paying for it, just through my tuition. Why the hell am I gonna pay more(albeit a VERY tiny amount more) for a service I DO NOT support and I actually believe to in my best interests not to support. I think that the students should be given a choice. Hell I'll pay for my music IF, its in a non DRM format. I mean If I like the music I'm gonna support the artist.
That being said I still think that $.99 is an outrageous amount to pay for any music not given to me in a physical format. Albums average ohh 12 songs a CD, you can buy a CD for $11-$15 if you shop around. About the same cost as downloading the songs. but look at the costs. With CDs you have the cost of the disks, the cost of the hardware to burn them, and the maintenance of that hardware. Not to mention when I buy these, as a customer I get the added benefits of cover art,lyrics, and all the production info. Also a plus is that I can make a perfect copy of the original and stick the original some place where it will be safe baring catastrophes. Digital music(yes I know CDA is digital but I mean music you are not given a psychical copy of) has next to no production costs(I mean its just a matter of encoding the music), millions of copies can be spawned at the cost of bandwidth, and several layers of middlemen can be cut from distribution costs. From the end-user side, its hard to store the data safely, on any form of rewritable media data corruption is possible and even common and CD-Rs are not as reliable as professional CDs. There is also no information about the music that comes with it, except what is in (if there is any) the ID3 tag(or equivalent), and that is minimal at best. Now add DRM and it is illegal to make perfect backups(or any backup for that matter) of your music. How long till you misplace a music file, or you hard drive crashes, or you drop your DRM approved device in the mud while getting out of the car without noticing and leave it to freeze there over night???(not that hard trust me I've done it with my cell). Considering all of this why do CDs and downloaded music cost about the same???
Anyways I have a navy thing tomorrow morning so I go to sleep now. I bid you adieu.
-Your loving fellow driver
ps. I want a pet fox and a pet squirrel. preferably ones that get along. and ones that talk would be good too
I swear geek articles are becoming my reason to post. Anyways this is not that interesting an article actually, most people probably know most of what it says, I'm just giving you the footnotes early. what was interesting tho was that second to last paragraph, the quote. Its a really good point I never thought of it that way. I mean I would NEVER buy DCMAed music, I'm sorry not gonna happen. While i always thought is was cool that schools were covering your music cost, I never realised I was still paying for it, just through my tuition. Why the hell am I gonna pay more(albeit a VERY tiny amount more) for a service I DO NOT support and I actually believe to in my best interests not to support. I think that the students should be given a choice. Hell I'll pay for my music IF, its in a non DRM format. I mean If I like the music I'm gonna support the artist.
That being said I still think that $.99 is an outrageous amount to pay for any music not given to me in a physical format. Albums average ohh 12 songs a CD, you can buy a CD for $11-$15 if you shop around. About the same cost as downloading the songs. but look at the costs. With CDs you have the cost of the disks, the cost of the hardware to burn them, and the maintenance of that hardware. Not to mention when I buy these, as a customer I get the added benefits of cover art,lyrics, and all the production info. Also a plus is that I can make a perfect copy of the original and stick the original some place where it will be safe baring catastrophes. Digital music(yes I know CDA is digital but I mean music you are not given a psychical copy of) has next to no production costs(I mean its just a matter of encoding the music), millions of copies can be spawned at the cost of bandwidth, and several layers of middlemen can be cut from distribution costs. From the end-user side, its hard to store the data safely, on any form of rewritable media data corruption is possible and even common and CD-Rs are not as reliable as professional CDs. There is also no information about the music that comes with it, except what is in (if there is any) the ID3 tag(or equivalent), and that is minimal at best. Now add DRM and it is illegal to make perfect backups(or any backup for that matter) of your music. How long till you misplace a music file, or you hard drive crashes, or you drop your DRM approved device in the mud while getting out of the car without noticing and leave it to freeze there over night???(not that hard trust me I've done it with my cell). Considering all of this why do CDs and downloaded music cost about the same???
Anyways I have a navy thing tomorrow morning so I go to sleep now. I bid you adieu.
-Your loving fellow driver
ps. I want a pet fox and a pet squirrel. preferably ones that get along. and ones that talk would be good too
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