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No Gmail account then? Google Docs? Well, they still have a whole bunch of your search data. An evil company could do plenty bad things with that.
and you trust anyone to not access your data?
In the current way of the world I expect them to. Trust has got nothing to do with it. My emails are stored on their servers. If I was a more interesting person I would fully expect govts to be digging through them, and large corps to bend to the whim of said govts officially of descretely. Lucky for them my life is completely non controversial and they don't need to waste their time reading through my correspondence. No aspirations of terrorism here, although I probably just triggered some search bots antenna by mentioning it.any company that accumulates vast swags of money is inherently evil especially when masses in their own communities are finding it difficult to make ends meet, however nicely that company might recycle their office paper.
Does that include music companies? ;-)
you know it does, I just wish I was one of them so I could be loathed in rich comfort (as opposed to loathed by association)
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Not sure if i agree Rob. My problem is finding the time to listen to all the music I want to hear.
of course not for an informed individual such as yourself, but you got to admit compared to past times it seems like there is less inspiring stuff around purely because the stuff you getting rammed down your throats is covering more and more bases than in the past and the noise from that lot drowns out the fringes, if you like to listen to the fringes. You can still find interesting stuff but it takes a degree of skill to filter through the noise. Compare that with the early eighties and it wasn't quite as difficult to dig up diamonds.
There's the noise factor and then there's the its harder to be original when so much has been done" factor too
I was watching the british 7 ages of rock thing and in episode 6 they discuss alternative music. They were discussing just that and how we now have many decades of the artform of 'rock' and its like many other genres of art in that there is now a huge history to be influenced by rather than past decades where it was new territory. Not to say new and vibrant ideas won't come along but just that when we've been shocked to the absolute edge already its going to be harder to push boundaries in the future. Interesting theory -
I do feel that someone has to keep these local outlets going, and presumably else must be buying as well as me.
kudos for your actions Geoff. nice to see someone looking at the bigger picture and not just from their self serving perspective.
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So I'm out of the loop. It's quiet here.
could also be that music journo's aren't informing you of music you would like. I does seem that convincing valid music is dying out, if you trust what you see and hear in the mainstream media, but there are people making interesting good music out there. is just really difficult to find.
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(2) And more importantly, Google needs us to continue to place trust in it,
I don't need to trust the company that tells me where to find information on the net, I just need it to do it efficiently.
any company that accumulates vast swags of money is inherently evil especially when masses in their own communities are finding it difficult to make ends meet, however nicely that company might recycle their office paper.
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Although I'm slightly surprised it's taken this long for you to turn up.
been spending time giving a little back to the community. doing Brendan Smyths work. Awesome young band. I'll flick you a copy when its done.
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So for me, DRM isn't actually the major issue,
Its not a major issue for you cos you're looking at it from only one perspective, ie an audience member. you don't take into account why DRM is needed, you just see it as an inconvenience., because you're on the otherside of the argument, and a man who only sees one side of any argument is a man who can't give a valid balanced judgement.
you're only looking at it like a consumer, which is one valid side of the picture. If you're going to be a good media commentator you're going to have to give some other sides to the situation. why do you think media content people might want to control copying of their product? What might be the repercussions of them not making efforts to control distribution of their product?
Do you think that maybe the current reaction of some companies is a stop gap measure till other measures can be taken? what do you think other measures might be.We've already seen the movie industry come out swinging in recent months attacking severely Torrent site operators torrent spy etc, asking govts to make ISP responsible for the piracy carried out over their networks etc.
If you think the powerful and rich media industry is going to lie back and let people take their livelihood without making everyone's life a lot more difficult you're not giving them due credit.
its sad that you are inconvenienced by an industry struggling to get the world up to speed on their situation but perhaps patience and support for a difficult situation would be a better approach, or maybe you don't really know how bad their situation is.
an effective drm might save the industry you say you're so into.
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I was going to say, why would you say something as uninformed short sighted and stupid as that but then I realised you were probably bored and baiting me, nice try mr brown, I'm not falling for it.
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aren't we over DRM yet?
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Kyle's mobile number is 021-113-0236. Have fun!
brilliant!, I most definitely will (have fun)
ps, you haven't got yulia's number have you,get my txting fingers limbered up......