Hmm thanks for that site. 2 bucks per album man. At 04:18 a.m. 6/02/2008, you wrote: >It's been a while but I believe I'll step into the dirt this time around. >I'm certainly guilty of mp3 piracy in the past. I used to hate buying an >album and then discovering that out of thirteen or sixteen songs, there was >maybe four or five that I actually enjoyed if I was very lucky. I used to >deeply resent that. I found it all too easy to rationalise grabbing a song >here or there that I actually wanted. With software, there's too much of a >stretch for me to ever make that kind of compromise with morality. If I >enjoy using a program, I'll either enjoy it enough to buy it or simply do >without it. It's that cut and dried. You're purchasing one thing that >presumeably does what you want or need it to do. There's no slippery slope >there. It's just a moral cliff to either jump off or not. Personally, I much >prefer the higher ground. If, for some reason, I need technical support or a >replacement key, I know I'm entitled to good customer care. > >On the music front, I've finally had the good luck to have found: > >www.mp3fiesta.com > >It sells mp3s very cheaply so that buying an album is something like two >dollars US and individual tracks are around ten cents. Downloading the mp3s >is as easy as downloading a regular file and I don't have to worry about >them only working on one machine or anything like that. It's about as >reasonable as humanly possible and I know I'm supporting the artists. > >Any way you slice it, piracy is wrong. I'm not certain there's all that much >to understand about why people do it. On the face of it, piracy doesn't seem >wrong because no physical goods are being taken. I think we're all still >catching up to the new digital world we live in. We have a hard time seeing >the physical consequences of the act and that has allowed piracy to become >as pervasive as it has particularly with music. In the accessible games >industry, we'll feel the effects of piracy far more keenly as developers >either go out of business or make their security more restrictive to the >point where it starts to deny legitimate customers the ownership rights they >ought to have. That process has already started with these activation keys >which tie a game to a certain machine. I just had to get another code for >Pipe2 so I could have it on my new desktop. If and when I'm able to get the >funds to upgrade Jaws and go to a Vista machine, I'll have to do that all >over again. If people keep passing around keys and cracks, I just hope >developers keep their legal customers foremost. > >Michael Feir >Creator and former editor of Audyssey Magazine >1996-2004 >Check out my blog at: >www.blindspots.net >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:35 AM >Subject: Re: [Audyssey] piracy of judgment day > > >> This is the kind of attitude which clearly shows a 2-faced mentality. On >> one hand you say you don't pirate software, then on the other hand, you >> say you pirate music. What's the difference? >> >> Amazing hypocrisy. >> >> shaun everiss said the following on 2/5/2008 3:29 AM: >>> well I am around 25 now, I try to stay as free as I can without going >>> alegal software wise. >>> I still do music though. >>> Really would run out of space if I didn't have mp3s. >> -- >> Raul A. Gallegos -- http://www.asmodean.net >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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