> It is built on the backs of free, stolen content and that's how they got that big. It's true, but the reason is because there's a demand for the content that is not getting fulfilled through traditional channels. Essentially this is the market punishing the music industry for: - not innovating. The music industry could have been way ahead of the curve with this but decided to whine and bitch and continue to act as though people only wanted physical media or what is thrown at them on the radio. Some people are like this but they are all old and the demographic is dying. They completely ignored what young people were doing with the Internet regarding music, etc. and how they wanted things to be in the future. - not cooperating and caring more about controlling the entire market than trying to get a piece of it. Fuck your exclusive deals and contracts. I don't have the time or money to subscribe to 20 different streaming services because one artist/their company is on one service only, another artist/their company doesn't like service X, Y, Z, etc. Artists should release their work into a combined or universal broker service and then those wishing to distribute it via streaming should be able to easily pay for the rights to anything they need without having to deal with separate companies and terms, etc.

It's *scrip", not "script."

I am laughing. Because if you know how to use your mp3 encoder there will not be a perceptible difference in quality. But that's the only reason. I intend to keep my CDs too.

Technology has become more involved with politics lately. Too bad Slashdot wasn't around in 1993 during the first Crypto Wars. It would have been the same stuff.

Dumb comment. Smartphones are OBVIOUSLY designed to be used for more than just phones. They have bigger screens, cameras, loud speakers, GPUs, Bluetooth which allows controllers, etc. So they are still called phones - who cares, they obviously are much more than that now. You still measure your engine in horsepower even though actual horses are no longer part of the equation.