I'd give them 79p (itunes price) and not a penny more damnit. (Admittadly, in my case that's thousands, but I'm still getting off less than her.)

Or, indeed, me loosing my backups, transfering to a new computer and trying to re download the songs that iTunes is saying I've already payed for, and being re-charged for every song. That I already own. And it knows I do. Because it tells me before I click on it.

That's why I turned to drugs. I mean piracy. But drugs might have helped to.

 

But what she did was horrible and totally unbearable.
Just too disturbing to think about. Luckily she's not getting the death penalty.

 

silence! or you will be held in contempt of this court! /quintesson

 

I have nothing but contempt for this court! /Hot Rod

 

the RIAA is all like, RELEASE THE LAWYERS

 

I always laugh at cases like these. Because I buy all my music/films/games on CD/BD/DVD or whatever.

Just downloading stuff, apart from being illegal doesn't feel... right? Tangible? Eh who knows what I mean.

Heh, maybe its just me. I remember the days when DVD's first came out, I thought they felt insubstantial at the time, because VHS tapes were so much chunkier. Heh. I am stupid. Ignore me.

 

Actually, all my music starts on CDs. Usually older ones, and I deliberately avoid artists and labels that put copy protection on their stuff. With CDs stored away, I will have physical backups effectively forever, they don't really degrade in anything like a normal timespan, and I can just re-burn any files I've made to a CD-R if I lose a physical backup. Easy.

- Coeloptera

 

hope you guys have a better "physical copy" than a CD. Since CD only have a life expectancy of about 10 years, even if you store it well.

 

  Where did you get that info?

I've got CD's from the late 80's that still work that have sat in my hot car for weeks on end.

 

Understanding CD-R & CD-RW - Disc Longevity

CD-R - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The figure of 10 years isn't consistent, but what IS consistent, is the idea that storing data on CD as your only "back up" is a bad idea.

 

A 1TB external hard drive works great! I've downloaded all my CD's to my computer and saved them all on my ex. Even saved all those purchased from Itunes.
Technically, I don't need to keep all my CDs anymore, but I keep them as back-ups in case the external fails.
Anything can fail, so it's good to have multiple back-ups when you can.

 

this is a true statement. I always have multiple backups on various mediums

 

That's why you should not use p2p or torrents.

I would be glad if the music industry would realize that their "products" are simply shit.
The music I hear, I buy mostly but none of the music is anyway near a major label.

The biggest labels are for example Artillery or Hands Productions.

 

I don't know for real pressed discs, but I have burned discs where I stored data that I cannot read anymore and they were only stored away in my locker. I guess the first discs were about 8 years old and look actually good. Not even a scratch. But no drive can read them anymore.

 

Some drives can't read some discs. But I think some drives can read all discs. You need a driver that can read CD/DVD/DVDR/DVDRW.

 

My drive can read every format and I can even burn double layer dvds.

 

not to mention a whole ton of things affects the life span of a CD.

 

Remember when cd's just came out and they all came in those cool cardboard sleeves with the album art on them?
First cd I ever bought was Megadeth's So Far So Good So What and it was like that.

 

  I remember my brother got his first CD in '87 it had that sleeve. And he didn't even have a cd player. My first one was Alabama's Southern Star from '88 or '89.