Trouble with MP3s
from the how-not-to-do-it dept
These are the type of articles I love. A reporter for Fortune writes about his (admittedly bad) experiences trying to find an MP3 file on the internet and concludes the whole downloadable music/MP3 concept is overhype. I really enjoy how these folks think beyond the simple task that they're trying to accomplish and decide that an entire concept is a dud due to one simple point of failure.
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This guys an idiot
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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Re: This guys an idiot
Sean, my 300 disc player can play for about 400 hours...
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Silly Billy
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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The MP3 experience
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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Re: The MP3 experience
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mp3's
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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