On MP3’s and future generations
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Well, I have been jonesin’ for some Third Eye Blind, specifically their second album Blue. I own the CD, in fact I have purcased 2 copies of it. Unfortunately, they are both gone missing. I know I lost one of them a long time ago, high school in fact. I have no idea where the other copy is. Which brings me to todays topic MP3’s. Since I have purchased the CD twice, I have no problem downloading the album off of bittorrent. Now I could do it the legit way and download it from the iTunes music store, Raphsody, Napster, or any of the other Pay to download music services out there. But I realized something today, What am I going to pass on? What am I going to show my kids or what do I have to look back to? MP3’s are invisible. They really are nothing more than a little electric charge or magnetic polarity discrepancy. You going to pass that on to your kids? Good luck. Between all of the lame DRM (Digital Rights Management) and all of the other advances in technology, you will be lucky if you will ever be able to share anything again. CD’s, Records, Tapes, 8-Tracks, You can hold those in your hands and display them proudly on your mantle if you so choose. I suppose you could pass down your soon to be busted iPod with all of your music electrically/magnetically stored inside. Its hard to enjoy that though.
So I guess thats it for me. From now on, MP3’s are only for the music server. I’m buying the CD’s from now on. I dont care how much space they take up or how little they hold or even how eaisly they scratch. I finally in one place have all of my Jurassic 5 cd’s. Including the Power in Numbers Special Edition with the Bonus DVD. That right there is worth more to me than my entire MP3 Collection. Think about the future. CD’s, Buy them for your kids.
Not to mention the fact that you can eaisly rip them DRM free.
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