On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:23:26 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>>>> Thanks to DRM, I get to buy the same product for 10x the price.
>>>> And in some cases, you get to buy it more than once.
>>> Heh, that's why I don't buy DRM-protected content. ;-)
>> 
>> Same here.  There's not much audio-wise that I find worth it.  I think
>> the last music CDs we purchased were the complete LOTR soundtrack
>> discs.
> 
> I bought Natasha Beggingfield. Not the ones with the rootkit,
> fortunately...

Another of the reasons I don't tend to buy music CDs any more - you never 
know what they've included software-wise on the disc.  Running Linux, I 
don't need to worry about it too much, but still, I don't like giving 
money to companies that do things I don't consider to be right/ethical.

>> Answer to both questions in the parenthetical is "yes". :-)  This is
>> something where I'm OK with re-buying the content, because I'm paying
>> for the improved quality.  Same thing with buying CDs to replace
>> cassettes. But buying MP3s to replace CDs?  No, I'll rip 'em myself,
>> thanks.
> 
> Buy MP3s, which are by definition lower quality than CDs? Heh, I don't
> think so. ;-)

Exactly.  The value-add there is....?  (Some would say "portability", but 
I have that with ripping my CDs, so there's no added value).

> (But then, I use Ogg Vorbis anyway...)

I need to look into that and see how it compares on my iPod.  Rockbox is 
supposed to be able to play the format...

Jim

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