Comment Re:A Necessary Evil? (Score 1) 382
> Yes indeed, the day and age of free music for all is over,
Far from it. As far as this person knows, mp3s is when presumably "free" music originated. Let's see, before MP3 was wildly known about, there was WAV, midi, s3m, mod, it... you name it. Sure there may not have been the singing voices in CD quality, but it was something. In fact, before MP3, I just set a program to record all out-going audio to a WAV file. The file was usually beyond 40 megs, but hey---a pretty nice copy of a song.
>I'm willing to fork over a little bit of cash every month
More power to ya. However, you need to realize that there are alternatives out there.
>I would have never heard of the Dave Matthews Band. Never would I have been amazed by the sensational pop stylings of Britney Spears
Ok. This signals a joker flag here. Can you possibly not have heard of these groups because you lived a very, very sheltered life?! Do you know what a radio is?! This post really got me laughing when he writes about "underground" music. Heh, I don't think you can get much more underground than that of the most popular mainstream artists around...
>there was a time when you COULDN'T trade music over the Internet. You had to settle for lyrics and tablature, and hum the melodies.
The ability to trad music over the internet wasn't massively publicly known about until Napster, that's a granted. However, file transfer occured the moment what you call the "internet" occured. These files were ascii or binary. With binary, music files. They may not have been mp3, but you can bet there was music files going back and forth. In pre-napster days, there was IRC, FTP searches, heck even some HTTP servers out there had archives of MP3s.
As far as "settling" with tablatures and crap... that's just hog-wash. Again, refer to my arguements for wav, midi, s3m, mod, it... etc. Just because you never knew about them, or cared to find them, didn't mean they didn't exist.
To sum this up, I can conclude that this guy is either someone joking (if so, that was pretty funny), someone without a clue (quite possibly), or some drudge drone worker for someone like the RIAA or some other organization thinking their market will collapse because of people like us. Who knows, maybe this person is a combination of some/all of the above.
Kudos if you're joking.
Far from it. As far as this person knows, mp3s is when presumably "free" music originated. Let's see, before MP3 was wildly known about, there was WAV, midi, s3m, mod, it... you name it. Sure there may not have been the singing voices in CD quality, but it was something. In fact, before MP3, I just set a program to record all out-going audio to a WAV file. The file was usually beyond 40 megs, but hey---a pretty nice copy of a song.
>I'm willing to fork over a little bit of cash every month
More power to ya. However, you need to realize that there are alternatives out there.
>I would have never heard of the Dave Matthews Band. Never would I have been amazed by the sensational pop stylings of Britney Spears
Ok. This signals a joker flag here. Can you possibly not have heard of these groups because you lived a very, very sheltered life?! Do you know what a radio is?! This post really got me laughing when he writes about "underground" music. Heh, I don't think you can get much more underground than that of the most popular mainstream artists around...
>there was a time when you COULDN'T trade music over the Internet. You had to settle for lyrics and tablature, and hum the melodies.
The ability to trad music over the internet wasn't massively publicly known about until Napster, that's a granted. However, file transfer occured the moment what you call the "internet" occured. These files were ascii or binary. With binary, music files. They may not have been mp3, but you can bet there was music files going back and forth. In pre-napster days, there was IRC, FTP searches, heck even some HTTP servers out there had archives of MP3s.
As far as "settling" with tablatures and crap... that's just hog-wash. Again, refer to my arguements for wav, midi, s3m, mod, it... etc. Just because you never knew about them, or cared to find them, didn't mean they didn't exist.
To sum this up, I can conclude that this guy is either someone joking (if so, that was pretty funny), someone without a clue (quite possibly), or some drudge drone worker for someone like the RIAA or some other organization thinking their market will collapse because of people like us. Who knows, maybe this person is a combination of some/all of the above.
Kudos if you're joking.
