Just to be clear, Sean Parker, the guy trying to buy WMG, is not the same guy who battled Metallica and the labels back in 2001. That is Sean Fanning.
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Just to be clear, Sean Parker, the guy trying to buy WMG, is not the same guy who battled Metallica and the labels back in 2001. That is Sean Fanning.
Chad Feldheimer
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Good catch. Just read his Wiki page. Appears Parker was working with Napster but wasn't a co-founder.
I remembered it was Sean something.
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I laughed. Pretty hard.
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This is actually pretty funny.
But more seriously what about people who had music they purchased and cannot replace now deleted by iTunesvirus? Happened to my wife. She ripped all of her CDs to use with her first MP3 player, the CDs for many of them no longer are readable, but she was not worried because the music is in the computer right? She doesn't file share, hell she can barely check her email. She moved her music to an MP3 player to exercise with. Her MP3 player died, nothing retrievable and she thought it would be fun to get an iPod Touch. So we do, install iTunes and the music is gone. iTunes wiped most of it out. Now I guess it is time to buy about a dozen CDs again, since they won't do anything about it. iTunesvirus is a bane on all that is holy.
(I added that last part because I am the biggest fan of hyperbole that has ever lived and ever will live in any form of existence imaginable!)
Did I say Limewire? I meant that they all came from my personal CD collection.
Investing in a backup portable drive pays for itself.
Exactly my thoughts.
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Yes it does. Yes we did. Apple is still a company producing "legit" viruses in the guise of music catalogue programs. And yes Steve Jobs is the spawn of Satan.
Sad that the answer to an intrusive company deleting your personal data and property is to back it up rather than them being held accountable in any way. (not that that is the only reason for a backup HD but you get the point)
So we did the next best thing. Bye bye iPod touch, hello Zune. Better interface too (imo and imwo) and does not force you to do anything with your stuff other than what you want to do.
Oh, this is cute. Pulling the veteran card. Let me clue you in on something...no one gives a ****.
True.
That said, I dont think Ive ever purchased a song or album from itunes. Also, the shelf life of digital music is absolutely ****ing horrific. Most of the files I deal with are either FLAC or MP3 320 and every now and again something borks and one of them gets a digital hit.
Anyway, in other related news, this Saturday is national record store day!!! Rejoice.