Comment Quality Assurance (Score 1) 238
Why would you do this?? When you are downloading files from random users of the service there is no garauntee that you will get a good copy. There have been many instances in which I've pulled down an MP3 only to find that:
- The playback is distorted.
- I don't have a complete recording of the song
- Or the damn thing makes mpg123 or whatever else I'm using throw it up and not play it.
If I'm going to pay for a service, I'm going to expect quality. (i.e. non of the above should ever happen.)
In order to assure this, Napster, RIAA, or whoever is going to have to set up servers distributing MP3s. Not gonna happen... And besides that, it defeats the entire purpose of peer-to-peer. I'm not going to pay just so I can share files with random, unsolicited people. Why would anybody else??
If they can't make any quality garauntees they're just gonna piss some people off...
