I don't mind paying for music, actually. Most of what little I do purchase I get from Walmart.com (Yes, I know I'm going to hell). What really torques me though is them telling me how I can listen to the music i payed for. My music lives on my fileserver and I access it from the various other computers in the house. in order to make this possible, i have to do a burn / rip cycle to defeat their (**#! DRE crap, just the same as if I was going to upload it. Anyway you look at it, it's still private, non-commercial use at home, and yet accordint to the RIAA I'm breaking the law!
I have no plans to put my CD collection on a P2P network. I plan to listen to my music however I want, where I want. In what way is listening to a song from my hard-drive different than placing the CD into the drive and playing it that way? How is that different that using a stand-alone CD-player? I shall continue to rip my CDs to my PC. I have given the RIAA enough $$$, I want to support the artists, not the theiving monopoly known as the RIAA. . . L J
I stopped buying CD's after that fiasco where a "certain label" was adding undisclosed software that self installed if/when you put your cd into a computer.
