A few thoughts on downloading music.
 

So for some reason I have been on a Beatles tangent as of late and realized that I've lost many of my CDs over the years, so guess I need to buy The White Album AGAIN.

Pop onto the interwebs and find that Amazon has the it for for 18.99 and the other albums for 9.99, but no MP3/downloadable version. Turns out, Apple has exclusive rights to ALL their music and wants 19.99 and 12.99 respectively. :bang:

WTF.

Corporate greed. The physical version is cheaper than the non-tangible digital copy. And I'd be willing to bet that Ringo won't see much of the money I would spend. If it were 5-8 dollars for the album, I would spend it.

So here I am, jamming to Strawberry Fields...

I did not spend any money today.

i use internet radio, youtube, or the radio. because i am cheap.

you aren't the only one. Its about time we gave credit were its due, we need to overhaul the copyright and patent system so the REAL genius behind it is the one who owns it.

omg. download it for free. i downloaded the complete discography a few months back just because.

Pirates all of you! I'm calling RIAA!

I did. :cool:

its ok, they were already listening to this board and all of our conversations. Among the listeners are the NSA and on a frequent basis, the FBI.

sadly to some extent what you say is true Joe. But, the NSA/FBI don't go after downloaders. That's MPAA/RIAA and their private investigators.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...fair-trial.ars

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...vers-judge.ars

US government does!

They aren't going after the downloaders of mp3s there individually and that's what I was getting at. They have and do go after copyright violators and anything even remotely related to sick ass kiddy porn. But, normally they stick to the larger scale stuff like that website. Diesel downloading the Beetles is more likely to be caught by the MPAA or RIAA seeding a bit-torrent or trolling IRC/Forums etc for info.

My security is a couple years behind though, so things could have changed recently.