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That's a good point, about bandwidth. I had forgotten some providers are now limiting bandwidth and when you reach your max, you have to pay for more. I dont' keep up with the changes at all, but last I heard it was such a high amount many people would not reach it, but with the prevalence os people streaming songs, streaming movies, streaming TV shows, streaming who knows what else, I imagine you not only will start to reach it as you drop physical media, but when the servers of the IPS's get hit mroe and more with it, they'll lower the amount it takes to reach the bandwidth limit, then suddenly we'll all be getting hit.
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Wait what?
How do you buy your copies of CDs then? Find Intrada releases in the stores? That's why you use a credit card for things, if someone ends up with your information you are not going to be responsible for paying back the money that was spent on your card without your authorization.
Intrada, like LLLR, SAE, and others, do still take money orders.
If somebody ends up with my personal information, who knows what they can do with it or whom they can sell it to. The lack of paying the label back, is the least of a buyer's concerns.
Though your hard drive can crash losing all your data, with backups easily available this is not a huge issue. It is easy enough to back up everything every couple of weeks.
Well, I never have to back up commercially purchased CD's, especially at an annoying rate of every couple weeks. Even once a month is too much. Hell, I rarely ever have to back up old CD-R's.
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I was an LP guy who happily embraced CDs, and I've purchased some music downloads and been generally satisfied with them. But I draw the line at streaming.
I'm glad I've got my Silver Age grails and so forth safely on my own shelf. I don't want to find out month to month if I'm still allowed to play them.
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Jun 13, 2014 - 2:25 AM
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LeHah
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Nope. My CD collection ate me. I didn't have enough room to keep them anywhere. Half the time, I didn't know where a CD I wanted was. Music I wanted to listen to went unheard because I didn't have the energy to dig for the disc in question. Boxes of CDs went into the attic, never to be played.
If you'll pardon the tone, this seems more to be a personal problem than a format problem.
That said, I've been unplugging from the Internet lately and buying a lot more books. It became obvious a while back that the promise made to my generation (in the 1990s) ain't ever gonna come to pass. And I'm tired of the way things are becoming "less" (streaming, downloads, etc) because, I suppose, I find high value in tactile sensation. I prefer waking up next to a woman and not a computer monitor with pornography on it. Or something.
Unfortunately, while this whole physical/digital download/streaming discussion brings up heavy emotions in me, they're vague and not specific enough to know who to damn and who to praise. So let's just say I don't like the road we're on, so I'll just refuse to acknowledge and participate in our current culture. If that makes me an individual or a crank, time will tell.
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There's some very valid points here but at the end of the day it falls into the class of what I call, "Arguing with how the world works".
Thing is, you can. But the world always wins.
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LOL! I have three thoughts:
1. Quotations aren't going to stop the world changing. (I don't mean that to sound harsh.)
2. Complaining to the Film Score Monthly Forum isn't, I'm sure, what GBS had in mind when he talked about unreasonable people changing the world.
3. The people who are actually 'changing' the world (not those trying to keep it the same), i.e. those pushing the world to streaming probably are the people GBS had in mind.
So, here's the challenge. If folks want to change the direction of how things are going, what are you going to do besides complain?
I don't mean that to sound harsh, but to quote Jeff Bezos responding to bricks-and-mortar booksellers complaining about Amazon: "Complaining is not a strategy".
Cheers
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Pretty apocalyptic around here...
Streaming is a good option for some. And those who do not want to choose their own playlists because they do not know or care enough about music will flock to it. It´s like the casual listener in the days of radio - they just switched it on and listened to what it offered.
The others will still collect and determine for themselves what they want. And believe me, every corporate entity will not want to lose that market as long as there´s money to make from it.
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Let's see.... I've owned LPs, 45s, 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, CD-rs, digital files, and streaming subscriptions. And I've listened to these and the radio on transistor radios, mid- and high-quality stereos, Walkmans, car stereos, computers, iPods, iPads, and phones.
And you know what I got? Lots and LOTS of great experiences with music I own and music I rent.
I like me this new world just fine.
And I'm with Schiffy. Digital organization of music beats the living daylights out of thousands of CDs to store and file and organize and just plain lose track of.
Yep, this is a brave new world. And it's all mine!
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I find high value in tactile sensation.
That's a good line.
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