I did. But that's just me.
People who have paid for content on CD or cassette will logon to a service and download digital copies of stuff they already have and burn them to cds, etc.
Why would anyone download content they already have on a CD? Were I so inclined to do so, my plain-vanilla computer could easily rip any track on a CD and put said track onto my hard drive for my private use. My CD player holds (and has) 300 disks, and that's pretty much what I use as far as music at home.
And as for tracks on cassette, do you also feel that Ford should be legally obligated to give you a brand-new 2005 pickup for free if the engine blows up in your primer-colored 1971 F-100?
The industry wants to be able to resell to people in most cases, something they've already paid for once.
Which, in my opinion, is something that they're entitled to do since they're the copyright holder. Those who don't agree or can't meet the copyright holder's terms for use of their product shouldn't be consuming the copyright holder's product.
Screw 'em.
No thanks.
Real simple, so they can have single tracks on their computer that they can play back without shuffling disks. So they can have single tracks without necessarily recording or ripping it themselves. Thus the concept of trading.
And as for tracks on cassette, do you also feel that Ford should be legally obligated to give you a brand-new 2005 pickup for free if the engine blows up in your primer-colored 1971 F-100?
Well, we aren't talking about Ford being legally obliged anything. Nobody's asking ford to replace the blowout. But then it isn't ford's place either to storm in when rebuild the old engine instead of paying ford for a new one. IE, what I do with what I purchased is none of Ford's business, none of Riaa's business, etc. If I'm not knowingly breaking the law, they can butt out. They want to make money on something we can do for free. Screw 'em. That's like ford suing to say I can't rebuild my own engine. Screw them too.
Which, in my opinion, is something that they're entitled to do since they're the copyright holder.
They are the copywright holder; but that doesn't give them the right to dictate to an owner what they can do with their own property. If I buy "let it be", they have no more say in whether I copy it or destroy it. Period. As long as I'm not knowingly giving it away or selling it to people who haven't paid for it, I can do what I bloody like with my own property. Ford doesn't have such rights as Riaa and others want to claim. And because it's common-bloody-sense.
Because with a high speed connection, you can get the album via download in less time than it takes to rip the cd. Also, it ties up less of your CPU resources.
Ripping a CD to MP3 takes more power than downloading. Won't someone please think of the Planet?