4 ms·
Ah, I thought you were replying with regard to the question "Anyone care to guess how low online music will go?" In the case of upgrading, I don't disagree. So
by tdavis 18y ago
Ah, I thought you were replying with regard to the question "Anyone care to guess how low online music will go?"
In the case of upgrading, I don't disagree. Sorry for the wrongful callout, it just drives me nuts when people have thousands of songs and listen to music all the time and say "it isn't worth paying for."
- tptacek 18y agoHoly living fuck, I just did the math on how much that upgrade price means I spent on music over the last few years.
- blasdel 18y agoSeriously! You saved some time by downloading from iTunes rather than via bittorrent. Was that time worth thousands of dollars?
- tptacek 18y agoI also think it's wrong to take music without paying for it.
- blasdel 18y agos/take/copy/
- tptacek 18y agoYou see, I carefully didn't use the word "steal" to avoid the copyfight pedantry, but that wasn't enough for you. "Copying" commercial music that you didn't pay for is unethical, just like "copying" a typeface family, "copying" a website design, or "copying" and black-labeling a GPL'd software package.
- deleted 18y ago[deleted]
- tdavis 18y agoI know, right! I mean, if music weren't free to produce and distribute it'd be one thing, but since it is, why doesn't everybody use bittorrent?!?! sigh
- GHFigs 18y agoThose thousands of dollars went to pay for the time of the people who created the work that I paid for. Kind of like people pay me for my time.
- smhinsey 18y agoTell me about it. Mine was $430 and I had a serious double take. On the up side, a decent chunk of my music was purchased with the gift cards you get from having an Apple Visa card.