dieselmiata

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.

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.

RedTurboMiata

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

Track

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.

MF-Brain

iTrader: (1)

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

flying_solo

iTrader: (1)

Pirates all of you! I'm calling RIAA!

dieselmiata

I did.

Track

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.

flying_solo

iTrader: (1)

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.

Track

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

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

US government does!

flying_solo

iTrader: (1)

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 *** kiddy ****. 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.