how long have we got before filesharing/mp3 downloads really are a thing of the past ?

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it can't last forever can it ?
occasionally, like when audiogalaxy shut
(shudders) or around the time of the
initial murmurings of the napster endgame,
i get a panic and start to download all
the rarities i can of bands that i love.
i picture the nexy generation's kids
staring up asking
'what there was ...a *machine* with every
known version of every song ever recorded
and you could just get what you wanted ?'

how long before this whole idea goes
into the recycle bin of history ?

― piscesboy, Monday, 20 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

i dont think it will, i think it will be here to stay - since the inception of the internet its always been possible to do and you can't stop it without stopping the internet basically...even if they shut down each program in turn there will always be another ten waiting in the wings - plus you can actually find mp3s easily enough via Google searching (tho perhaps not more obscure stuff) and if people cottoned onto that more they would have to make it absolutely illegal to store any digital music on ANY servers connected to the internet which is virutally impossible to enforce anyway, let alone enforcing such laws on people's own computers

watch out for things like Microsoft's 'Palladium' system and similar next gen spyware devices tho

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

What about the slow appearance of (allegedly) copy-proof CDs?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

There will always be a way to copy CDs. It may become a more complicated process, but some determined person will always be able to do it. And the copying process only has to happen once. Like leaked CDs that suddenly are all over the internet. Usually everyone is trading the exact same files from one original source.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

CDs can be recorded easily using computer soundcards...ANY recorded sound can be re-recorded - i cant believe the megacorps continue to waste valuable time and money attempting to combat that

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

altho it would mean recording a CD would take as long as it takes to listen to it...but hey thats what we used to do with cassettes!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

the copy proof cd's came and went (around celine dion's last album right?)
it turns out that with a black marker you could censor the information on the cd that didn't allow you to copy it. sheer genius.

― ddd, Monday, 20 January 2003 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

CDs can be recorded easily using computer soundcards...ANY recorded sound can be re-recorded - i cant believe the megacorps continue to waste valuable time and money attempting to combat that.
And here's an even quicker way to do it for those who still have Win9x
Yes, and the RIAA was immensely pissed when thye found out someone could defeat their oh-so-sophisticated copy-prevention technology with...a...felt...tip...pen.
Ironically because of the DMCA, felt tip pens are now considered to be illegal...because they are a "copy protection contravention device."
Ho Ho Ho.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

CDs can be recorded easily using computer soundcards..

I recently had to do this with CDs by Smog (fuck you, Domino) and Altered Images. The resulting sound file was completely indistinguishable from the original. No hum or noise or anything. Sweet.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Trying to make digital content not copyable is like trying to make water not wet
-- Bruce Schneier

― Paul Crowley, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:14 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

So do you think anyone thought that as filesharing clients were shut down or went legit that anyone ever expected it to be as atomized as it is now, i.e. random links just floating around on the net instead of a 'centralized' destination?

― fukasaku tollbooth, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

yes.

― Display Name, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 03:10 (eighteen years ago)

it's like holographic, like every part is a perfect representation of the whole? or nanotech, and the more you try to crush it the smalller the fragments get and slip between your fingers? really high right now.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

Although the real question is how soon will e-commerce and digital content distribution come together so smoothly that most people will not bother to steal because it is too inconvenient. What the industry needs is a monetized youtube.

If you only had to pay a penny to listen to a song from a cluster of portals, why would you bother to steal?

At that rate, 4 solid hours 3 minute pop songs would cost you about 80 cents. An entire week of afterwork listening would cost you a little over four bucks.

― Display Name, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 03:23 (eighteen years ago)

Display Name for president of the internet

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

i need more LSD to understand this thread.

― ian, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

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