Comments on: MP3 2000 http://rc3.org/2009/04/04/mp3-2000/ Strong opinions weakly held Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:59:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: regeya http://rc3.org/2009/04/04/mp3-2000/comment-page-1/#comment-5175 regeya Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:05:30 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=9365#comment-5175 <p>If the music business wants to know the right way to do things, and they're not on board with this already, they should be on the phone with Amazon.</p> If the music business wants to know the right way to do things, and they’re not on board with this already, they should be on the phone with Amazon.

]]> By: acm http://rc3.org/2009/04/04/mp3-2000/comment-page-1/#comment-5160 acm Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:33:20 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=9365#comment-5160 <p>I dunno -- I think it means you have the album on hand, whether through purchase, gift, or theft, and thus that you've listened to it enough to know it well, to have internalized it. and not just the popular tracks, but the whole thing. I think it's about depth of familiarity, not the effort that went into achieving that familiarity...</p> I dunno — I think it means you have the album on hand, whether through purchase, gift, or theft, and thus that you’ve listened to it enough to know it well, to have internalized it. and not just the popular tracks, but the whole thing. I think it’s about depth of familiarity, not the effort that went into achieving that familiarity…

]]> By: Laurens Holst http://rc3.org/2009/04/04/mp3-2000/comment-page-1/#comment-5149 Laurens Holst Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:17:21 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=9365#comment-5149 <p>To me, the biggest awkwarness about this is when people exclaim ‘I have that song’ or ‘I have that album’ and they mean that they illegally downloaded it.</p> <p>I don’t particularly care whether it is on disc medium or downloaded as MP3, but IMO you it’s silly to say that you ‘have’ an album when you never paid for it. If you download it illegally, better say nothing, or just that you know the music.</p> <p>I mean, the purpose of making such a statement to another person in a conversation usually serves to show that you like the music, that you support the musician, that you took the effort to go out and buy their CD, because you like it so much. Doing that for something you never paid for seems rather meaningless.</p> To me, the biggest awkwarness about this is when people exclaim ‘I have that song’ or ‘I have that album’ and they mean that they illegally downloaded it.

I don’t particularly care whether it is on disc medium or downloaded as MP3, but IMO you it’s silly to say that you ‘have’ an album when you never paid for it. If you download it illegally, better say nothing, or just that you know the music.

I mean, the purpose of making such a statement to another person in a conversation usually serves to show that you like the music, that you support the musician, that you took the effort to go out and buy their CD, because you like it so much. Doing that for something you never paid for seems rather meaningless.

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