I don't see how anyone would ever bother trading SD-cards to get "complete" music collections, so I don't see this having any kind of impact on unauthorised music downloads, either from the downloading or the hampering of it. What's more interesting to me is how much of my music I can have with me at any time.
As someone who has quite a big music collection (owing mostly to the reams of independent excellent music that is free or cheap on bandcamp), I notice my flac collection is sitting at about 2TB. So whenever something like the FiiO X5 supports 1TB cards (which it might already do), I can have my whole collection with me in top quality.
Of course, that same collection is much less than 1TB in mp3 format, so if I upgraded my old player to a newer model, I already can have it all.
I expect the vast majority of people have no interest in even having a collection as big as mine, not to mention having it with them at all times, so it really has minimal impact on this in my opinion.
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I don't see how anyone would ever bother trading SD-cards to get "complete" music collections, so I don't see this having any kind of impact on unauthorised music downloads, either from the downloading or the hampering of it. What's more interesting to me is how much of my music I can have with me at any time.
As someone who has quite a big music collection (owing mostly to the reams of independent excellent music that is free or cheap on bandcamp), I notice my flac collection is sitting at about 2TB. So whenever something like the FiiO X5 supports 1TB cards (which it might already do), I can have my whole collection with me in top quality.
Of course, that same collection is much less than 1TB in mp3 format, so if I upgraded my old player to a newer model, I already can have it all.
I expect the vast majority of people have no interest in even having a collection as big as mine, not to mention having it with them at all times, so it really has minimal impact on this in my opinion.
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