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Originally Posted by pramjockey
I had vinyl records when I was a kid, and remember when the CD came out. While I do have a fairly large CD collection, it has all been ripped to MP3, and I purchase legal copies of songs that I want to add to my collection, unless there's a whole album that I want to purchase because I know it'll be good and I want to support the band. |
Likewise, though I don't think I've ever had a CD collection, but then again by the time I was old enough to have a job everyone was using MP3's. *coughs* Of course that would state that I used Napster (because I don't believe there was any legal way to obtain MP3's at that time), in its hay-days, well I did. Then again I was also 14, or 15 at the time. Hrm, point is I've never owned a CD.
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Originally Posted by pramjockey
It's like movies; I stopped going unless it's really good. Excellent movies end up in my DVD collection as extra support for quality filmmaking. If more people purchased good movies and music and shunned bad, the companies would have incentive to provide a better product.
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Likewise, problem is, the majority seems inclined to pay Hollywood to continue making films that are made with minimum effort and with money rather than creativity in mind. I know this because just you watch, people will go to see The Mummy 3, Indiana Jones 4, Rush Hour 3, Die Hard 4, Jaws 500. :P I'd love for the American public to stand up to Hollywood (Not for their political views, I could care less), but because they just don't want to make original movies anymore. Why, its a risk, and as long as suckers keep paying for more of the same thats what we'll get. Meh, doesn't anybody ever boycott anything anymore?
That being said, a little something more on topic. Isn't necessity the mother of innovation? If thats the case I don't see how innovation could be dead.