My thoughts will be with you tomorrow on your difficult day {{{{{deborah grabien}}}}}.

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Yes, it's my standard grumble as someone who's living actually depends on people respecting intellectual property.

I only share with people I know and ask them not make a million (ok, any) copies of it. And as long as Betamax stands, I'll keep doing it.

I don't have the money to spend $15/CD every time I find a song I'm interested in. Thus, iTunes is like crack to me.

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I spend a lot of money on iTunes. I adore it for the ability to grab one off tracks.

In fact Spiders by Space is there. For 99 cents you can have a legal copy David.

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Nutella always makes me think of a friend who, drunk off his ass during a canoe trip, was smearing it on his face proclaiming, "I love Legolas!"

Mmm, Legolas smeared with Nutella.

And while I have no desire to seriously get into this discussion:

people respecting intellectual property.

I'm not actually going to buy something until I have heard enough to increase the liklihood that I will also actually enjoy it. It's why I really don't buy a lot of music now. The owners of the intellectual property no doubt don't care, but they would make a whole lot more money off of me if I could take their intellects for a test drive first.

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You know what you shouldn't do? Watch House's "Three Stories" when there is unexplained back pain that isn't getting a whole lot better. It made me realize that I don't look like Carmen Electra for one thing.

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It made me realize that I don't look like Carmen Electra for one thing

But you don't look like the farmer, either.

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Cass, I totally agree with being able to hear it first. It's why I support sites like iTunes Music Store so much. You can listen to a good sized piece of the music, and you can buy one track at a time. So far it seems to be the best option.

I loved Napster when it was out and used it to audition a lot of music and then either went out and purchased or deleted the tracks.

I'm also not totally rational about this since it hits so close to home and I've had my work outright stolen and used.

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But you don't look like the farmer, either.

Fair point, actually. I hadn't really thought of it from that perspective. I feel a little better now.

Now back to reread ND's post. Which potentially has fair points too.

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I feel a little better now.

yay!

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It's why I support sites like iTunes Music Store so much. You can listen to a good sized piece of the music, and you can buy one track at a time. So far it seems to be the best option.

It is the best option I have seen. Just not one that leads me to buying a lot of entire albums. I mostly use it to fill out music that I already know I like. Their snippets aren't really enough for me to decide if I like a whole album (wow, old... albums...). I don't know the tech of it at all but if they could find a way to let me download an album freely and play it for a couple of days before it self-destructs or I pay up, golden.

I loved Napster when it was out and used it to audition a lot of music and then either went out and purchased or deleted the tracks.

When it started, I downloaded like crazy. And started spending like crazy too. Alas, no interesting and useful technology goes unpunished.

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I'm also not totally rational about this since it hits so close to home and I've had my work outright stolen and used.

deeply. fucking. shitty.

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