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Originally posted by MaggieL
Well, how many times have you called this year? :-)
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Not many since I got DSL hooked up!
You know, another thing about the whole MP3 situation occurs to me... and maybe this is what gives the RIAA the willies more than anything else. Complete hardware platform independence! You give me an MP3, I can play it on my computer. I can put it on flash memory and play it on a handheld player. I can put it on an external hard disk and, gee, maybe that hard disk has software to play the MP3 and a headphone jack (like the ipod and its ilk). The record companies have always had strict control over the physical packaging of the music.
The company I'm really interested in is Sony, because they make electronic gadgets and they have lots of music and movies, which means they may have an internal conflict about which side of this debate to come down on.