On drums...

Long gone are the days when one would buy an album and listen to it hundreds of times before getting the next one...

http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/201 ... onsidered/

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Cliff

River City Trio

What if we did all have the same opinions?

He's delirious.
And I hate the way he writes.

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Cliff

River City Trio

What if we did all have the same opinions?

... aside from a split infinitive or two?

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Gregory

A) He expresses himself like a 5th grader.
B) All of us can present a problem, to do so without a realistic solution is just being a whiney little bitch.
The solutions he presented can't even be taking seriously. To ask the multitudes, who don't want to pay for music, to "donate" is comical. If you could get gas for free would you donate to the guy who owns the gas station?
To ask folks to pay for something they can get for free is seriously delusional.
If it is illegal, going after the guy buying the nickel bag is useless without going after the guy distributing it.

Some years back Tool and Die makers, thousands of them, saw their field disappear with the advent of automated machinery. My 55 year old friend who did duct work his entire life found nothing to do a few years back with all the "already made, in a box" flexible duct.
These people of any less value than a muscian?
With music it's a whole new world now. The way the world is headed. To ask the whole world not to go that way is like asking the farmer to go back and milk cows by hand.

To suggest people buy 2000 dollars worth of equipment to get free music is also a stupid premise. They already had the stuff, and it just happens to play music. The writer suggests the whole world evolves around music. I had a computer and didn't buy it because it played music.
I like watching movies too. Do I need to donate to the people in them soon?

To attack, it seems, one DJ who admits to using free music, which also appears that DJ has no way to respond, is beyond cheap. To then arrogantly state they wouldn't be accepting reply's, except those they selectively choose, is just piling the turds on. I was on a drum forum like that and it smelled a lot like toilet.

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Cliff

River City Trio

What if we did all have the same opinions?

I too can seperate content from style. Doesn't mean I won't comment on it. Remember, I write on about a 4th grade level. And I don't mind it being, lets say, mentioned.

But it is the same, technology has made getting music easier. The same way it has made getting everything easier.
The music industry did a lousey job in the beginning at handling this fiasco. Now it's a mess.
While I don't condone illegal activity, to expect the population to "realize and acknowledge that violation of copyright laws and rights under them is wrong" and act accordingly is the seriously dilusional part.

They have "License plate recognition" because nice people like you and me, who know we shouldn't speed, do.

This part I agee with: "Better enforcement of these rights and laws".
The dude barking at the offender, is barking up the wrong tree. Like telling the alcoholic he shouldn't drink.

Given the reality of human nature, I agree that it's unreasonable to expect change because it is "the moral thing to do". In this day and age, even the notion of moral truth is under attack.

However, the writer was not barking at an offender so much as he was presenting moral truth (however unpopular a notion) and pointing out the fallacies of the apologist.

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Gregory

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Cliff

River City Trio

What if we did all have the same opinions?