Henry66;610944 Wrote: > I hope to live long enough to see the demise of physical media for music > and video. Everything in "the cloud". Resistance is futile.
I don't know... I'm inherently suspicious of leaving my collection completely in the hands of others. It sounds nice if you say it fast, but consider the following examples. Remember the abomination of colorized B&W movies? I'm sure they thought they were doing us a great favor. It was very hard to find an original version during this period. What happens when the only version in the cloud of your favorite song is the over-compressed remixed loudness wars casualty? Copyright holders are notorious about changing their minds. Someone only needs to wake up on the wrong side of the bed one morning and you'll find material from a favorite artist gone. I can remember a period when the great Marx Bros. comedies were virtually non-existent. My wife - a Jimmy Spheeris fan - saw his stuff disappear for a period due to copyright issues. At one point used CDs were around $100 a pop. Even today the out-of-print "The Dragon Is Dancing" CD is $40 used as the price came down since you can download the album if an MP3 is acceptable. I just finished the book "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu which looks at the history of technology and communications starting with the telegraph. Consistently for the past 150 years, things have repeatedly cycled toward monopoly control with others deciding what we should hear/see and when. I think I'll hang onto my stuff for a while longer.... ;-) -- mlsstl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85651 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
