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~ Nine Things You Can Do To Fuck The RIAA [+]
1) Rent it Used. Hmmm… I can pay Apple .99 cents a song or Walmart.com even less or… I can go out to one of the many used CD stores and buy some discs and return them for credit via their “insurance” policy. What is an insurance policy? Well most used CDs are priced anywhere from $2.99 to $11.99. If I buy one with say 12 tracks at one of the many flourishing used CD stores (no wonder Tower Records went bankrupt) for say $8.99 then return it within one week for 75% store credit, how much have I paid for a track. Yes, that’s right a little over $.18.
Now you do the math. Would you rather have a perfect, crystal clear mp3 with correct meta data and no DRM for $.18 or would you rather pay iTunes $.99 for a crippled piece of crap. And, yes, the policies also apply to their new CDs.
2) Sneaker Net. Wow, he certainly does have a large collection. Geez, I wonder why all the external 250 gig external hard drives are out of stock at CompUSA?
3) Help Out a Friend, Help Yourself. What, you mean you haven’t ripped all of your CDs to mp3 yet? Here, let me help you out.
4) Kaaza Lite. Darn it. I can’t find that new song that I heard on the Soprano’s last night at the CD store. I hate going on to Kaaza. I mean the spyware and pop up ads and the all that crap. What’s that? Kaaza Lite? Interesting. What, do a Google search for “Kaaza Lite?” Ok. I’ll try that. Hey, this sure beats Kaaza.
5) Will I Be Sued? Ok, so Kaaza Lite’s pretty cool, but aren’t I going to get sued for picking off that one single track that I can’t find at the CD store? Well, probably not. First of all supposedly at present the RIAA is only going after you if you’re actually sharing and not just taking (yeah, yeah I know, you’re a giver). Second, even if you are a giver it’s still pretty unlikely. It’s probably more likely that you’d get struck by lightning. Slashdot covered a post on this a while back.
6) How to Find New Artists. Try a legal mp3 site. Just go to Google and type in “legal mp3.” You’d be surprised at all of the free music that is out there right now – this represents a whole new way to find artists and there are some pretty great ones out there.
7) Total Recorder. Do a search for Total Recorder on download.com, tucows.com, etc. What does Total Recorder do for me? Well it records anything played through your soundcard on your PC. Does this include any live music that I record from television? Yes. How about a copy protected CD? Well, if it will play in any way on your PC, yes. What about a radio stream or broadcast? Again, yes. What if on my regular old home stereo system I use my line out to go into my PC and listen to my audio CD through a line in on my PC? Heck, this might just work. Anything that travels as audio through your soundcard can be captured.
8) BitTorrent. Enough said. Google it. Check out bitoogle.com.
9) Ok, so the music thing is pretty nice but what about high quality artwork to show on that beautiful new plasma in my living room? Check out “advanced image searches” at Google, Yahoo! and (yep believe it or not) Ask Jeeves. Right click, save as, now it’s in your library. But aren’t these images copyrighted? I don’t know, maybe. So sue Google.
Post je objavljen 27.08.2006. u 02:02 sati.