No Free Music??

[kadeng]

CD quality music (128 kbps)???????????this is no cd quality music but mp3 quality!!!


Now if they would boost the quality to real cd quallity!

[GreekGoddess]

Although, now that I think about it...I wouldn't mind paying for the services above, but I really don't think I would be interested in the pay-per-burn. I mean, if you're going to drop the money that averages out to the cost of a cd anyway...go buy the CD, you get the nice case and the books with it, rather than just a plain cd. Now if you're into burning mixed cds...that's a different story.

I don't understand why people thinks this sucks so much? You are pirating artist's music...plain and simple. You are stealing...just as you would an application or a game that you download and crack...and don't pay for. I'm not a huge supporter of the RIAA, but to not see that stealing music is wrong is like a bank robber...robbing a bank bitching about how he doesn't like the laws regarding bank robbing. It doesn't make sense.

I've said before...I download music. But to say I didn't know what I was doing, would be a lie. I know full and well that I'm stealing when I do it. And nothing I can say will make that right. I agree with roswell1329 on the issue...companies are coming out with new an innovative ideas to legally distribute music. No, it's not free...and it shouldn't be free. But is a subscription service for something like Kazaa so bad if it makes it legal? I know when one of these services catches my eye, I'm going to switch completely over and ditch Kazaa altogether. I don't want anyone screwing up my computer in the long run, it would also decrease the chances for getting infected with something. And the cd's I've burned off of the net really aren't that great anyway.

[johnnymier]

what can big record labels do? I think the answer is quite simple: lower cd prices. Instead of
coming up with useless copy protection, which can be cracked or with which
many cd's don't work on every player, big labels should just price cd's
around US$ 5-7.
The perfect example that this will work is what Pearl Jam did: they
realeased every live album of their 2000 tour, and priced every double cd
at around US$ 12, which is cheap for a double, with that they beat the
bootleggers. The same thing can be applied to the whole industry. I still
buy cd's for the better quality of sound and for the lyrics, liner notes,
etc. But there are many people who are not real music lovers and don't
care about the quality, so they just dowload massively, therefore if any
given cd is priced around US$ 5-7, I am sure that everyone will go back to
buying cd's, even cd's in which people only like one or two songs, will be
purchased.
File sharing and cd burning are technologies that were embraced massively
mainly in response to crazy cd prices, for example in Mexico, where I
live, cd prices skyrocket, a cheap cd here is like US$ 20. The music
industry cannot stop the flow of technology, it can only accept the fact
that they now have competition, they have a huge disadvantage because
their comptetition is free, but then again the big advantage of a record
label is that they offer the quality product because many downloads are
of extremely poor quality. So if you offer quality sound at a lower price
people are gonna buy it! Volume of sales would compensate for the lowering
of prices. Maybe record executives think I am completely wrong, but if
they lower their prices they can bet that at least my record collection is
gonna grow a lot.

[GreekGoddess]

CD prices in Ohio really aren't that bad. I mean, if you know your cd doesn't have any bad words in it, you can go buy it at Wal-mart (cause their cd's are all censored) and they run around 11-13.99...and of course more for double and collections.

Or, you can go somewhere like Best Buy, which offer just as good prices as Wal-mart without the censoring, some at 9.99 and up. I don't think it's an outrageous price, that's not why I've burned cd's in the past...I burned them because they were free and because I can be a cheap bastard when I want to be, not because I'm rebelling against the prices out there. The prices out there are fine for places like Best Buy and Wal-mart...not somewhere like Sam Goody. Hell, my motto has always been, if it's free it's for me. Only until recently did I make the switch in a lot of my software and such, and started paying for what I wanted instead of pirating it. And now, if I can't afford it, I don't buy it. I don't expect people to bend to my expectations of prices when other people are buying it with ease. Now if no one was buying a product because it was too highly priced, I'm sure they would take that into accomodation.

So yeah, of course if you lower the prices people will be more inclined to buy and buy more cds, but that shouldn't be an excuse to why you burn cds and pirate music. Before Napster was even introduced, you were out there spending your money on cds. I know I was buying a hell of a lot more cds, some of which just got taken to the local Record Exchange and gotten rid of cause I only liked one or two songs. Not to mention the convienience of getting the music right off your computer...no driving around involved, except when you run out of blank cds.

johnny...ever considered buying off the internet?

[bombayofpigs]

quick question as another kaaza user...

I just got my 10mbps connection to my house, so as you can all guess this RIAA inquisition is putting a slight hamper in my willingness to download without being caught.

My question: What would the best way to stealth your computer be...

I have a lucent fiber to ethernet router, but i dont believe that there is any way to do any CLI to see if this router has the ability to do NAT. I guess I could get another router and put it behind my gateway...

Or install a proxy server??? I can get a static IP from my ISP for 3 bucks a month so thats not a problem...

Any ideas would be welcome...

Thanks!