[JPL] Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use

[Bradley M. Stone]

The fact that they are going after people who have actually purchased a
CD, and have uploaded it onto their computer for their own personal use,
is, I think, significant.  This is tantamount to (in the "old" days)
purchasing an LP, and recording it onto a cassette for use in one's car.

The real drawback, for me, with respect to iPods is that this is really
"low fidelity", the files are compressed - and lower fidelity than CD
(which of course is outdated and inferior to say, SACD or an LP played
with a good turntable/cartridge.

Brad


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Eric,

Of course it doesn't prevent "records" from being "dubbed" - remember LP
to tape cassette?  The copying that's freaking the record industry
resulted from quick ripping and peer sharing - 3 or 4 minutes to copy a
full CD instead of 40 minutes to an hour for an LP.  PLUS the ability to
pick specific tracks, OR re-order or eliminate them later, OR shuffle
playback to change the sequence for variety make the mp3 player  
a very different beast from a cassette.   And then when the copiers  
give it away on the internet no wonder the record companies worry about
how many sales are lost as a result.

Like most of you I have little time for leisure listening.. I'm mostly
auditioning new CDs, things I haven't heard before and may never listen
to again.  I did buy an iPod Nano to gain an understanding of why people
like them so much and think about the impact on radio and records.
After transferring some favorite tracks from a variety of CDs and
downloading a few podcasts, I can understand their appeal.  It bear
little relationship to the painstaking 1 to 1 dubbing of LP to cassette

or CD in real time.   Also, having hundreds of tunes you can  
immediately access in a device smaller than a single audio cassette is a
huge leap.  Yeah, I can see it ...  It's not like making a single copy
from an out-of-print record for a friend.

I think I'd agree with David's tongue-in-cheek comment.  Most of the
iPod generation would not be able to figure out how to get a vinyl LP
into a computer.  The drawer is too little!

Jim

Jim Wilke
Jazz After Hours, PRI
www.jazzafterhours.org