Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?

[runequester]

I think the commodification of every aspect of our society is incredibly toxic. The notion that there is no instance that should not be turned into a source of income, is very inhuman, even if you are otherwise pro-free trade.

[runequester]

Dammy, I can assure you that we will find zero instances where you and I agree on economic policies

[runequester]

If you're into piracy, high-quality music rips are not that difficult to come by, and they're free, to boot! Even better deal!

It does sort of amuse me that you can buy portable MP3 players and phones with 16+ GB of storage, while they claim to totally be against music piracy.

Because everyone I know is going to fill that storage space up at 1 dollar per song, real soon now.

But they are really totally against piracy.

[runequester]

I have enough LPs recorded to fill 16gb many times over, and I've only recorded a few hundred of my LPs, about 20% of my collection. No downloads for me at all (no point having a decent audio system and putting lossy compressed audio through it!).
My needle-drops are 200khz (100 for mono) variable bitrate OGG Vorbis (much better than mp3), so they're nothing unusual.
Incidentally Sansa mp3 players are great for OGG and FLAC - can't do that on an iPod.

yeah, the lack of formats it supports is rather aggravating.

[runequester]

And people owning CD's and actually ripping those to MP3's is of course totally unthinkable?

Where I work, we employ mostly younger people. I'd be highly surprised to find many 19 to 21 year olds owning even 10 CD's nowadays.

[runequester]

It's actually sort of interesting, because the music industry now basically works on a model of "pay us if you want to, you can get the product either way", whether they admit it or not.

Supply and Demand gets interesting when the supply is set to infinity

edit: And you are right of course as regards industry attitudes. THe problem is they based their entire business on controlling the distribution. When that control was taken away, it turned out, they didn't have a backup plan, because they never expected to do anything else.

[runequester]

Especially when you can go to a large public library and borrow their CD's.

You can, but then ,you might as well just torrent it. It's no more legal in the eyes of the law.

[runequester]

Thats another thing: The push is very much with music as it is with software towards "renting" rather than ownership. You pay to use a service for a given period of time. It's never owned by you.

This extends to plenty of electronic widgets too. You have a license to use it, but you don't have ownership to modify or tamper with it.

At the risk of being doctrinaire, remember that private ownership is for the people who own the productive forces, not for you.

[runequester]

Via the teats, I'd presume.

Nowadays they have a facebook app for it