Comment Re:Binary Data cannot be art?!?!?!?!?! (Score 1) 210
Yes, a CD is just a storage medium, but there's a difference between a telephone directory and, say, Crime and Punishment, isn't there? To a computer, they're both sequences of alphanumeric data, but to a human they're very different items with very different purposes.
As for the point about owning rarities, it sounds more than a little whiny to me! I haven't, and wouldn't, pay $1000 for any record, but if people do, that's their choice. I bet that if you owned an out of print recording and you could either sell it to one person for $1000 or convert it to MP3, you'd take the $1000 and find a convenient loophole that didn't make your behavior "sick".
As for the point about owning rarities, it sounds more than a little whiny to me! I haven't, and wouldn't, pay $1000 for any record, but if people do, that's their choice. I bet that if you owned an out of print recording and you could either sell it to one person for $1000 or convert it to MP3, you'd take the $1000 and find a convenient loophole that didn't make your behavior "sick".
