Posted on 08/03/2017 1:14:19 PM PDT by sodpoodle
The Post Office is one of the most needless things in our lives. Almost as much as the federal dept of education and nancy pelosi.
Buying the music gets you a far better listening experience than what you’d get on YouTube. That said, unless you really like a given piece of music, just saving something that you find appealing to your YouTube “liked” videos will build a library of sorts, with the exception of videos being deleted which happens.
I consciously avoided Win 10 for myself and turned off cloud on my wire’s Win 8 machine. The concept just reeks invasive snooping.
It all doesn’t matter!
Al gore tells us we will all be dead anyway.
The post office and military are the only constitutionally mandated things. I don’t see either going.
My children and most of their friends are avid readers and they all have stopped reading the tablets and readers and have returned to real books.
When I have talked to them they say they like to have a book in hand rather than a tablet and also they can more easily go back to a previous page to re-read something than search for using a tablet.
Where have you been?
It’s alright, we know where you’ve been.
Ebooks cannot be highlighted.
It is some nerd geek, poor idea about highlighting.
Ebooks are for fiction only, where a billion other books make life worse, with extra clutter.
The author seems gleeful at the prospect of entering an era without physical articlfacts left behind.
... with the exception of videos being deleted which happens.
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You are correct about that. I went looking for the original version of Glen Frey’s “You belong to the city”. Great video. Apparently gone forever. If it’s not on YouTube it might as well not exist.
Yup
The very reason we love books they do too
Overzealous attempts to protect copyright. Prince videos are notorious for that. You could probably find that video on the Eagles website if they’re smart. Hiding it from the public eye due to copyright is self-defeating. They could try to monetize it, small fee for download of a high resolution copy, but then they lose control of distribution, it can be emailed and shared. The whole prior model of the music industry and the big studios has come apart, and some are flailing about trying to hold on, and only offending their fans and turning off potential new ones in the process.
And history books online are soooo much easier to alter when the mood strikes the fancy of those "in charge". (Who are we at war with?)
Overzealous attempts to protect copyright.
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Yep. But it is still surprising to me that it not more widespread.
Look at the Roy Orbison Black & White Night video on YouTube. I bet it still sells as a DVD. (They sold me one long ago). But you can watch it for free on YouTube.
Strange business model.
That Black & White Night Roy Orbison series is a true classic filled with very notable musicians above and beyond Roy Orbison himself, it’s truly awesome and just about any aficionado of music who appreciates him would like to have the best copy of that performance that can be acquired, so I’d imagine they do rather well selling them. Leaving the low resolution copies up on YouTube actually sell the high resolution copies. I know I was completely unaware of it, before I saw it on YouTube.
When will smoking be good for me?
Sure, if you censor and block access to foreign sites.
Until that happens, more people probably have more access to old books now than ever before.
Dang, I just did normal dating, got married and got a wristwatch all in the last 4 years.
That may or may not be true
It is a constitutionally mandated service
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