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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:49:37 -0500, Warp wrote:
> I stopped buying any music CDs some years ago because I got totally
> fed up with the music industry and its policies and its lobbying of
Oh, and yes, I also stopped regularly buying CDs some years ago as well -
my collection is mostly from > 7 years ago. We've picked up a few things
since then (like the new H2G2 series, Lewis Black at Carnegie, etc.).
The new purchases are generally "pre-owned" bought at a secondhand shop.
Except for the Hitchhiker's series - those were new from the BBC.
Jim
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:39:52 -0700, somebody wrote:
> Music isn't any worse or any better than it was or will be.
Oh, I disagree. At least here in the US, the thing the record companies
push is mainstream popular music. It didn't always used to be that way...
Jim
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:00:27 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>
>>> Really? What makes you say that?
>>>
>>>
>> I understand your view of modern technology is an 8-track player with
>> mechanical radio buttons for station memory :). So I'll explain:
>>
>> CDs are old fashioned because people buy and download their crap music
>> to their iPods now (those fashionable white boxes you see various
>> teenagers walking around with) Music on CD has gone the way of the LP
>> record. :)
>
> Really? I wasn't aware it was possible to do that legally yet... oh,
> wait...
The complete LOTR soundtrack (the recent release) can be purchased for
$22 on Amazon in a download-only format. Then there's iTunes....
Jim
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:30:46 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Invisible escribió:
>> Mike Raiford wrote:
>>> CDs are old fashioned because people buy and download their crap music
>>> to their iPods now (those fashionable white boxes you see various
>>> teenagers walking around with) Music on CD has gone the way of the LP
>>> record. :)
>>
>> Really? I wasn't aware it was possible to do that legally yet... oh,
>> wait...
>
> Yep, there's iTunes store and others, where you legally buy the digital
> files. With DRM of course...
Actually, I was surprised that the Amazon downloadable Complete LOTR
soundtracks are in MP3 format. I don't *think* there's any DRM involved
(which was really surprising).
Jim
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nemesis wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>> Well, no, *obviously* I've heard their music.
>
> good. Now I don't know what amuses me the most: that you can't distinguish
> their styles or that even being aquainted to Bach you're still listening to
> that much crap from the recording industry...
I see. So if it's new, it is by definition poor quality?
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:30:32 -0500, Tim Cook wrote:
> Encryption, if it is decryptable, is therefore trivially decryptable?
If the content has to be decrypted in order to be used, then the answer
is generally yes. But not because of the algorithm used - most attacks
don't attack the algorithm anymore, they attack the decryption mechanism.
For someone with the skills, extracting the necessary keys has become
fairly trivial. How long did it take for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray DVD
encryption to be "broken"?
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
>> So, what's in *your* CD collection?
>
> Wagner's Ring (all four operas)
> Mozart early symphonies
> Beethoven symphonies
> Queen
> Enya
> The Eagles
> Mannheim Steamroller
> George Carlin
> Clannad
> A large number of movie soundtracks (Dracula, High Fidelity, LoTR)
> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 radio series)
> Enigma
> Howard Hansen Symphonies
> Shostakovich
>
> Quite a lot of other stuff as well, that's just a sample...
Predictably, I haven't heard of most of those. (My mum is very keen on
Queen though. I like a few of their tracks, but overall it's just not my
personal taste.)
Wait - there's a person on Earth apart from me who listens to Enigma?
Woah...
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:09:58 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> that's a huge big pile of ... ;)
>
> Yes, that's roughly the response I was expecting. :-P
>
>> Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Chopin and company are spread throughout my
>> CDs and brand-new HD...
>
> I like Bach. I wouldn't recognise any of the others...
I think you'd recognize Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - probably just didn't
know it was Mozart. Beethoven, I think you'd probably recognise the
major symphonies (5 & 9), and possibly the Moonlight Sonata.
Chopin, I'm actually hard-pressed to come up with a song off the top of
my head - most of his works were piano IIRC, and I didn't play piano.
Jim
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Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I see. So if it's new, it is by definition poor quality?
Abba is not new.
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>> I see. So if it's new, it is by definition poor quality?
>
> Abba is not new.
I didn't say that Abba was new. Or bad. You're the one saying my entire
music collection sucks. :-P
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