No problem. Things like this just inspire the rest of the intelligent world to distribute those 'copyrighted products' on hard copies to everyone they know; that way they won't be downloading anything illegally. Disc media is cheap. Downloading capture programs are free. Watch the video & capture the stream as it goes to computer or even the tv/monitor; encode it to play in a standard player. Copy to 100 discs. Give it away. Encourage others to share the same way. Done. The only people that these new regulations will affect would be the poor folks who wouldn't buy the product anyway. Software? Please. There's a hacked version of everything out there. All you have to do is look. Go to one lan party and you can probably get whatever you want without buying a thing.
That said, I don't mind paying for quality products; but the vast majority of the time, what is sold is defective and causes as many problems as it solves. CD's are still sold with 90% filler material instead of hit songs. DVD's are usually watched once; yet how many times will Disney for example release the same movie on new special editions of classic movies? Software (especially Windows) is so bloated and defective that it requires reinstallation every couple years or it slows to a crawl and makes the average person think they need a new computer. And it's not like they can't fix their products; they have all the programmers in the world working for them. But it's that they won't. They want to sell you another version of the same damn thing instead.
The guest after you was on a rant / roll also, so I'm curious as to whether you're the same person.
To answer both of you, the modern capitalist business model is this, each special interest group firmly believes that they are solely entitled to your "disposable income" in its entirety. Very sadly, that extends to health care as well. So, consider the MBA as a qualifying course for elite parasites. That said, we march right into the trap, by stupidly becoming addicted to the toys, gadgets, ans s*** entertainment that they ram down our throats. They don't have to bother with the, "be the first kid on your block to have one of theses" pitch any more, we've been conditioned to be that person anyway. In fact, it's probably genetic by now.
Anyway, country music usually has a fairly high percentage of listenable material per album. This is partly because Nashville still adheres to a bit of the old "Tin Pan Alley" business template, whereas, the hottest singers get offered the best songs Since the writers will get the most in royalties from them. Many country performers aren't, at least wholly, "singer songwriters", which extends the explanation. (But if you don't like country music, you're SOL on this one
That said, the exception is Taylor Swift, God bless her, who writes all her own material, but has proven in public that she can't sing something by anybody else. Oh well, she's young, give her time.
