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You Win This Battle

Posted: 2003-06-06 12:15pm
by Admiral Valdemar

Posted: 2003-06-06 12:18pm
by Peregrin Toker
If they want to make people buy their CDs, do like Bal-Sagoth: Overload the lyrics booklets with opulent and frivolous fantasy artwork. That'll make people buy an album even if they've downloaded most of the songs on it.

Posted: 2003-06-06 12:19pm
by Kelly Antilles
Holy Fuck... Orwell was right. Big Brother does exist. Privacy means jack shit now.

Posted: 2003-06-06 12:29pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Kelly Antilles wrote:Holy Fuck... Orwell was right. Big Brother does exist. Privacy means jack shit now.
Quiet you fool! Don't say that to your Telescreen, the Thought-Police will catch you!

Posted: 2003-06-06 12:33pm
by Kelly Antilles
Admiral Valdemar wrote: Quiet you fool! Don't say that to your Telescreen, the Thought-Police will catch you!
:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P

Posted: 2003-06-06 04:07pm
by Saurencaerthai
Simon H.Johansen wrote:If they want to make people buy their CDs, do like Bal-Sagoth: Overload the lyrics booklets with opulent and frivolous fantasy artwork. That'll make people buy an album even if they've downloaded most of the songs on it.
Yeah, seriously. I once spent a two hour bus ride reading the epic from the Ultima Thule album! In all honesty, they have to make the CD's worth the money, which either means including more or lowering the price.

Posted: 2003-06-06 04:24pm
by RedImperator
I'll give props to Verizon for this--they're fighting those bastards as best they can (they also just lowered my DSL rates, so they're on my good side right now). Hopefully SCOTUS will shit all over the DMCA.

Posted: 2003-06-06 04:25pm
by Mitth`raw`nuruodo
Most CDs are shit nowadays, as a general rule. Sometimes there is a good song or two on there, but I don't want the whole fucking CD (unless I need use it as a $15 frisbee, but that's probably not gonna happen). So, you download it! Quick, easy, and if you use one of the less popular programs (or any programs run by German sites, i dunno why), you most likely WILL NOT get caught.

Posted: 2003-06-06 04:31pm
by Sea Skimmer
Mitth'raw'nuruodo wrote:Most CDs are shit nowadays, as a general rule. Sometimes there is a good song or two on there, but I don't want the whole fucking CD (unless I need use it as a $15 frisbee, but that's probably not gonna happen). So, you download it! Quick, easy, and if you use one of the less popular programs (or any programs run by German sites, i dunno why), you most likely WILL NOT get caught.
Music companies intentionally only release one or two decent songs per CD, the rest is crap padding since no one with pay 20 dollars for a single song.

Posted: 2003-06-06 05:09pm
by DPDarkPrimus
If record companies had their way, we would have to pay $50 for each record, and each record would only have about 20 minutes worth of music on it. I say, hooray for piracy! It's keeping prices at a level of mere price-gouging.

Posted: 2003-06-06 05:23pm
by HemlockGrey
Hey, I have an idea! The recording industry can take all the CDs that I would have bought, and shove it up their fucking ass.