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   Sean Hammons, 15 Sep 1999 @ 7:56pm

   
   

   This guys an idiot

   Yah, I agree that mp3's have gotten a lot harder in the past 6 months to find, if you're trying to pirate, but he makes it sound like much harder than it is. Besides, anyone who knows anything would generally use hotline, not the web, to find pirated music, or software if desired.

   
   mp3's aren't all about piracy anyway. Almost every single CD that i own, i have encoded. This makes for the awesome 70 hour playlist I have, which is a great thing that no CD player could ever offer. And I'm sure there's lots of people who have many more mp3's than I do.

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   GC, 16 Sep 1999 @ 9:08am

   
   

   Silly Billy

   Well,
   
   It seems to me that at work he is using an http proxy and hence can't download files anyway. This is quite common at corporate sites, all our users only have native (by proxy) http access. (except for a select few, heh heh :)
   

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   Todd, 16 Sep 1999 @ 10:02am

   
   

   Re: This guys an idiot

   I agree, Mike, the reporters' bias is: hey, I'm a high-tech guy, if I can't figure it out, it must be impossible for the average guy and likely to be a dud for everyone. EARTH TO REPORTERS -- YOU ARE DINOSAURS. MOST 3RD GRADERS KNOW MORE ABOUT THE NET. SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, THIS INCLUDES YOU, TOO.
   
   Sean, my 300 disc player can play for about 400 hours...

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   mgallagher, 16 Sep 1999 @ 10:51am

   
   

   The MP3 experience

   Ok so this guy doesn't have a clue when it comes to getting free MP3s. You can't really suppose that his experience is unique either, which really get to the point of the article: That MP3s are going to change everything from your underwear to copyright law is, well, a bit of an overstatement.
   
   CD are easy consumer product, you buy one more or less the same way you buy a candy bar, bring it home, and then all you really need to know is how to push the "eject" and "play" buttons.
   
   Sean H. really hits this on the head when he writes "anyone who knows anything would generally use hotline". Precisely, true, ground shaking, mass market, change the world products don't usually require people to anything too special to use them.
   
   MP3 will get easier to find/get/use over time, but until then, this guy probably should keep buying CDs.

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   Mike (profile), 16 Sep 1999 @ 11:38am

   
   

   Re: The MP3 experience

   My point in complaining about the article wasn't that people should be able to figure out how to use this stuff... they shouldn't be expected to. My point was that MP3 means a lot more than just being able to download any music you want for free. That's what's scary to the record industry. Whole new models of doing business. This guy goes and assumes since he can't figure out how to download one song he wants, that there's no possibility for MP3's *anywhere*. The fact is, MP3 or something like it certainly has the potential to change the industry in MANY ways, and just because the guy can't find one song doesn't mean it's a dud.

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   dave, 29 Sep 1999 @ 6:13pm

   
   

   mp3's

   thanx for this article
   now i don't feel like a fucking moron
   excuse the profanity but i have been trying this stupid,goddamn,motherfuckin,son-of-a-bitch,cock-suckin,waste-of-my-time,fuckin',bullshit,lame-assed, worthless,stupid-as-fuck,shity,steaming-crock-of-shit,ball-suckin'cock-lickin' mp3
   concept and i think it eats cock!!!!!!!!!!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!!@@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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