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Its somewhat like paying a lot of money for a rare vinyl record when the mp3 can be downloaded for free
by codeulike 6y ago
Its somewhat like paying a lot of money for a rare vinyl record when the mp3 can be downloaded for free
- rsynnott 6y agoIt's one step beyond that; it's paying for some people on the internet to _pretend_ that you own the record. There is no actual literal transfer of ownership at all.
- acdha 6y agoEven that’s not conveying how silly this is: in your analogy you’d at least have the option to natter on about how the vinyl sound was so much warmer and truer to the artist’s vision, as audiophiles have done for decades. This is more or less you saying you paid for a receipt showing you paid to have a hash of the same MP3 everyone else is listening to.
- nonameiguess 6y agoIt's paying a lot of money for an unenforceable extra-legal claim to ownership of a slip of paper with directions to a building that may have once contained a not-at-all rare copy of a song that was only ever recorded as an mp3 to begin with.
- beckingz 6y agoIt's more like paying a lot of money for a mp3 recording of a rare vinyl record.