fear what epic records are doing, gluing the lids shut on portable cd players they send to their reviewers http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992804
& this will jsut cause so much waste & poloution it is unbelievable well done plus listening to a cd on a partable even if it is a top of the line still makes it sound muffled & not nice compared to a propper hifi that mots reviewers will have
I see no point in the record companies doing that, the reviewers can just snap the lid off... it doesn't take much strength heh, they'll be paying more and more to get higher range players so reviewers aren't tempted to snap the lid off... when will they learn that MP3 0wnz them, not the other way around?
its not clever, as in they aren't very clever in sticking the lids down when they can be broken off again
I encourage all to resist the evils of .mp3 and use .ogg instead. More info on Ogg Vorbis (audio), The Ogg Project and Xiph
yeah, pointless as you could just pop it open with a screwdriver. oh btw, Sammy would you mind terribly if I made this my sig?
I wonder if they remembered to glue up the outputs on the players Most discman/portable music thingys have optical or digital out...
Exactly what I was thinking. It's not exactly hard to just plug it straight into the Line In socket on your soundcard and save to disk anything that comes through... I mean that's how you get LPs onto your computer! Are they totally stupid or do they just not realise how easy it is.
subtract "use of digital music" and I think the quote fits more... Other measures taken were the choice in music to put in the players..... next week's sealed music releases are the new albums by llaunoki with 'sounds of the sheep'
It's that word again, control. It seems that everything we use/would like to use is controled by someone else who sits o his a$$ and dictates how we (the end user) can use something, sound like cencorship to me.
Although I guess the point is that they Record company would want the unit back and if they get it 'busted' then they know who the culprit is. You'd have to get it out without it looking like you'd broken it open.
I read an article on China's policy of controling the net, but the interesting part was that Company's need to control the product in order to make money off it. I agree that they are trying to control digital music, but I wouldn't say it's censorship.
i wonder what would happen if they could erase all illegal music just like that, the market for buying normal music could go through the roof would it not? maybe they'll make cheap cd-players so whenyou buy the cd it comes with a player stopping you copying
CD sales have not decreased as much as they'd like you to believe. Part of the decrease in sales is related to the dropoff of casette sales. Guess what the people not buying casettes purchase? If you guessed CDs, you'd be correct. They neglect to mention that part and the fact that in some instances, sales have increased. I doubt I can find the articles anymore, but I'll look. I don't think sales would go through the roof if illegal music disappeared. A modest reduction in cost would probably do wonders though. I doubt that would be cheap enough, and people would still remove the CD if they bought it. In addition, many will not purchase CDs if they can't use them how they want to. I'm converting my CD collection into .ogg files so it is convenient for me. Random, repeat on thousands of songs is how I prefer to listen to music. By the way, very few of my files aren't from my own CDs. I'm listening to my collection alphabetically and as I find mp3s (only files I've downloaded), I'll either buy them, or delete them.
