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re: Would You Say Napster Actually Revolutionized and Proliferated the Music Ind.?
Posted on 10/2/15 at 3:35 pm to genro
Posted on 10/2/15 at 3:35 pm to genro
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But still that stuff is for the masses, the people who were hardcore on Napster are still going the free illegal route, bittorrent.
I don't know about that. I personally am a huge media pirate and I haven't TOUCHED one of my MP3s since I got Spotify. They have made it so easy and cheap to actually pay for music (especially on a family plan) that piracy really doesn't have the same benefit.
I also stopped pirating PC games when Steam (and Steam Sales) gave me the same mixture of low price and high convenience. I want to stop pirating completely but the video content producers want to be assholes about fragmented distribution sources for streaming so downloading is still easier than figuring out which of Hulu/Netflix/Amazon/HBO has what I want.
This post was edited on 10/2/15 at 3:44 pm
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Posted on 10/2/15 at 4:12 pm to cardboardboxer
Hulu hit me with the "We're sorry, but this title that we're advertising is not actually available anymore on Hulu" message one too many times. I refuse to go back, and it hasn't bothered me one little bit.
I loved DC++ when I was in college, but Spotify is so cheap, it would be STUPID to pirate music instead.
Steam is awesome for games as well.
The internet is still maturing and bringing more and more access to content that wasn't even an idea in the early days. I remember when it was a huge deal that you could even play other people online in games like Counter-Strike. I remember thinking in 2008 or so that the internet was starting to reach its limit for usefulness. I think that was around when Youtube and facebook were really becoming popular. Now I realize how short sighted I was.
What the internet will look like in 10 years will be totally different than it does today even. I think in my lifetime, the concept of what is human will be tested very, very hard by AI and cyborg people. I also think my son might be the last generation that sees a world population that is growing.
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I don't know about that. I personally am a huge media pirate and I haven't TOUCHED one of my MP3s since I got Spotify. They have made it so easy and cheap to actually pay for music (especially on a family plan) that piracy really doesn't have the same benefit.
I loved DC++ when I was in college, but Spotify is so cheap, it would be STUPID to pirate music instead.
Steam is awesome for games as well.
The internet is still maturing and bringing more and more access to content that wasn't even an idea in the early days. I remember when it was a huge deal that you could even play other people online in games like Counter-Strike. I remember thinking in 2008 or so that the internet was starting to reach its limit for usefulness. I think that was around when Youtube and facebook were really becoming popular. Now I realize how short sighted I was.
What the internet will look like in 10 years will be totally different than it does today even. I think in my lifetime, the concept of what is human will be tested very, very hard by AI and cyborg people. I also think my son might be the last generation that sees a world population that is growing.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 4:51 pm to NYCAuburn
I still remember my first mix CD-ROM. I thought I was such a baller
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