Comments on: One format for digital music? http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4466 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:51:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4466/comment-page-1#comment-12103 Reader's Write Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:36:38 +0000 #comment-12103 The user's manual for the devices should tell one what the damned thing plays. Informed consumers should not get caught by this. Oh, you mean this new-fangled DVD player won't play my VHS cassettes? Whaaaaaaaaa! :D Multiple formats keeps the industry alive. Imagine if you could only ever use one font to write text. Variety breeds progess and inovation. Also what if everything was the same format, would you have arrests for encoding music as a wav file, or raw sound, or whatever. How would that crime compare to assault, vandalism, or drug smuggling? The user’s manual for the devices should tell one what the damned thing plays. Informed consumers should not get caught by this.

Oh, you mean this new-fangled DVD player won’t play my VHS cassettes? Whaaaaaaaaa! :D

Multiple formats keeps the industry alive. Imagine if you could only ever use one font to write text. Variety breeds progess and inovation.

Also what if everything was the same format, would you have arrests for encoding music as a wav file, or raw sound, or whatever. How would that crime compare to assault, vandalism, or drug smuggling?

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4466/comment-page-1#comment-12082 Reader's Write Fri, 08 Apr 2005 03:21:20 +0000 #comment-12082 Simple, Outlaw DRM wrapping of any kind. That way, a VALUED CUSTOMER can choose ANY dowload service, and easily convert for ANY player. Duh Dreddsnik Member Boycott-RIAA.com Simple,
Outlaw DRM wrapping of any kind.
That way, a VALUED CUSTOMER can choose ANY dowload
service, and easily convert for ANY player.

Duh

Dreddsnik
Member
Boycott-RIAA.com

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4466/comment-page-1#comment-12077 Reader's Write Fri, 08 Apr 2005 01:50:00 +0000 #comment-12077 "...warning labels on portable devices about what formats can play on the machines." This little part is not such a bad idea, but the rest is about as dumb as it gets. “…warning labels on portable devices about what formats can play on the machines.”

This little part is not such a bad idea, but the rest is about as dumb as it gets.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4466/comment-page-1#comment-12070 Reader's Write Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:18:42 +0000 #comment-12070 Was "RAC Rat" Sheryl Crow at this hearing? LOL just wondering. Was “RAC Rat” Sheryl Crow at this hearing? LOL just wondering.

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