[ale] bleeding edge (was why so difficult)

[Jim]

The MP3 debate could drag on a long time. But the reason there are so
many "illegal" copies of songs today is that the recording industry
tried to kill the technology first instead of working with it. The
entertainment industry fell behind the same way with videocassettes in
the 70's and they used the same rhetoric then that they use against
MP3's now. Clearly, videocassettes did not kill the movie industry and
MP3's won't kill the music business either. What they will do--and are
doing--is force some lazy executives to rethink their business model.
But there is no guarantee--legal or otherwise--that any one business
model will last forever. That's one of the exciting things about the
evolution of Linux and open source programming.

Agent Durga wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, jiin wrote:
> 
> > Bleeding edge stuff? hell I am just trying to play mp3's on my box.
> 
> -mp3s, while a great compromise between quality and file size, are still
> worthless and unless you own a copy of an album containing the tracks, are
> illegal....but i'm very anti-mp3 but it's simply because I have a fairly
> large music collection....and have spent quite a bit of money on it...
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