How to Turn A Music Lover to Piracy

dugn writes to tell us The Consumerist is running a story about how a run of the mill (read non-tech-savvy) music lover was pushed to become a pirate. "I've devoted a not-inconsequential chunk of my life to collecting music; to tracking down obscure records, cassettes, 8-Tracks and CD's of all genres and styles. And now apparently that is all but over. Music has somehow evolved from tangible things into amorphous collections of 1's and 0's guarded over by interested parties as if they were gold bullion. How so very sad."

ROFL

[Grashnak]

Well" she responded, "You didn't actually purchase the files, you really purchased a license to listen to the music, and the license is very specific about how they can be played or listened to." Now I was baffled. "Records never came with any such restrictions," I said. She replied, "Well they were supposed to, but we weren't able to enforce those licenses back then, and now we can"

And here you all thought that you owned all those 8 track tapes, when in fact you're just storing them for the company that made them.

Re:Piracy = Freedom

[illeism]

Piracy allows me to have questionable taste in music ;)

Re:hmmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

For Fifteen THOUSAND Years

The earth is only 6000 years old, Bob.

Re:hmmm...

[misleb]

For the vast majority of that fifteen thousand years you speak of, music wasn't a service that people (regular folk, that is) provided each other at all. For the lion's share of the first 14/15ths, nearly all music was for religious purposes, so at best it was a service by people for their gods, not for each other. Music for pleasure didn't become decently commonplace until the Baroque era in the West, and even then it was a service of talented professionals for some King or Prince, not the everyday folk.

Ever heard of a bard? Geez. It's like you've never read a fantasy novel before...

-matthew

Re:Piracy = Freedom

[Anonymous Coward]

[piracy] has allowed me to listen to bubblegum pop without the scornful looks of music store clerks and no embarrassing CDs to hide when friends stop over.

"Dude, is that an ABBA directory I see on your filesystem?"

"Uh, no, uh, that's, um... where I hide my pr0n"

"Cool."

Respectfully disagree

[aztec rain god]

I'd say before bringing up religion, that most music around the world in the past has either been about getting laid or not getting laid, just like nowadays.

Well said, save for one typo:

[A_Non_Moose]

FTA

the best they can do is tell me to wander the streets of Seattle looking for different internet providers who might allow me to download the music that I have already paid for, music that I have spent the better part of three house trying to listen to, and which is still unusable?

I'm sure someone not so damn tired either auto translated (like loose/lose which this gent did (huzzah!)) or
figured it out quickly.

I did not.

Thought 1: three house? Three houses? Why go to three houses? Different internet connections?

Thought 2: Tree house? He has a tree house? WTF...makes no sense. Tree house are fun, tho.

Thought 3: Time? Three hours? Ah, makes sense now. Odd. Funny, but odd.

Thought 4: HEY, I'll be damned, the typed lose instead of loose! Wow, house/hours typo forgiven!

Thought 5: I need a nap.

Related article coming soon...

[goldspider]

"How to Turn a Cheapskate Freeloader to Piracy"

Guess which article more people would relate to (or at least more accurately represent).

Re:hmmm...

[edmicman]

But I don't want to download that. I want to download Justin Timberlake.

Re:hmmm...

[QRDeNameland]

Eh, Stone Zeppelin was little more than a ripoff of Neanderthal blues rock-beaters of a previous era, like Muddy Glacial-Ice and Howlin' Mammoth.

Re:An etymological question

[shotgunsaint]

I suspect that the generation of young people growing up now are going to, on hearing the word 'pirate,' think first of a hot copy of Photoshop, and only second of a smelly guy with a knife clutched in his teeth.

Who says we can't be both???

Re:An etymological question

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope that block quote from the OED counts as fair use, or they'll send the Surgeon of Crowthorne to enforce their copyright!

Re:hmmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

It MAKES Me FEEL very important to Talk in ALTERNATING Caps, even if they DON'T maKE SeNsE to reaD. Sometimes I ALSO like to randomly italiCIZE Words As Well.

Your badly-written and incoherent ramblings just don't amount to much of anything other than uneducated, music snobbery. "Oooh, damn that Edison for recording music on a medium! He ruined it for everyone!" Fucktard.

Re:hmmm...

[cptgrudge]

The earth is only 6000 years old, Bob.

Maybe he means 15000 dog years. Then it would fit.

Re:That sound that you hear faintly in the backgro

[FunWithKnives]

I completely disagree with you.

It will be massively enjoyable to watch.

Re:hmmm...

[rbochan]

...I want to download Justin Timberlake.

Then there's no hope for you.

Rhino

[Emperor Cezar]

So I went to this Rhino store and checked out the help section. I wanted to know if everything had DRM. In there I found this:

What is Digital Rights Management (DRM)?

The DRM helps protect the file from illegal copying. However, as with any 'lock', hackers may break it. Those who knowingly tamper with DRM are acting illegally. They may even wear masks and possess secret identities. We discourage any attempt to defeat the copyright protection.

Re:hmmm...

[arminw]

....No, the earth is about 6500 years old. It says so right in the Bible, so it must be true. All this billions-of-years-old stuff is a scheme concocted by the evil scientists.....

Actually, they are both right. It's just like is light particles or waves? It's both. To measure time you need a clock. There are two kinds of clocks we use. The one scientists use is run by the electronic forces that control the atoms and their particles. That's the one that governs your digital watch and radioactivity. The Bible uses the force that controls the motion of the earth, planets and galaxies, the force of gravity. Your grandfather's pendulum clock is timed by gravity.

The equations that govern the atomic forces ALL have a time value in them; that is they are contain certain "constants". There is no known law of physics that mandates that the actually remain constant. The equations that govern gravity, do NOT contain any constants. Gravity depends ONLY on mass and distance, nothing else.

The entire evolutionary belief system, masquerading as science, mandating billions of years, is based on the assumption (belief) that these constants truly are and always were constant as we measure them today. Even today, the atomic clock it drifting measurably slower against the gravity one. There is evidence that some of these so called constants may have changed by as much as a factor 300 million since the "big bang" event. There is an equivalence (nonlinear as most things in nature are) between the two time scales.

Re:hmmm...

[kindbud]

"I am attempting, Madame, to construct a MP3 player using stone knives and bearskins." - Spock, Music City on the Edge of Forever

Re:hmmm...

[iminplaya]

Yes he would pay for a performance of said data. A recording is not a performance, and should not be construed as such. It is an ad, like a billboard promoting a performance. And we should get paid for distributing them :-)