Confessions of a Unix Addict

Wednesday, February 18, 2004

I changed the link to Security Focus on the left side to point to their *NIX section, frontpage is to DOS centric for my taste.
1:18:18 PM

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Don Henley of Eagles fame, wrote an opinion piece over at Common Dreams. Makes an interesting read, but I have to add the following:
The problem isn't P2P sharing, the problem is most people can't get hold of the music they're looking for, lack of variety if you want to say so. As long as MTV and all local radio stations try to stuff the same music, looped in three hour intervals, down my throat, I simply refuse to listen and buy. To clarify, I don't download from P2P networks, the sound-quality is simply not what I demand, but I don't go out and buy this CD-like DRM-crap either. At the moment I resort to my CD library (about 400) and copy it to my Mac and enjoy. I'll start buying CDs again if they are Red-Book standard and I'm able to copy them to my computer, not to share them but to listen to them (some DRM "CD" broke my CD-Player and I refuse to buy another one).
To cut a long story short: Don, as soon as your employers stop treating me as a criminal, I will buy your music again.
1:04:02 PM

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