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   Anonymous Coward, May 27th, 2004 @ 11:11am

   
   

   Variety is the spice of life. If you want everything to be the same, you are either to stupid to appreciate have CHOICE or to stupid/lazy to want to figure out what is best for you and would rather have someone tell you.
   
   

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   Oliver Wendell Jones, May 27th, 2004 @ 11:42am

   
   

   Wow, what color is the sky in your world?
   
   Mike wasn't complaining about the variety of music available, but the various non-compatible, proprietary music data file formats that are out there.
   
   Imagine if you went to the real world music store to buy the latest album from your favorite band but find out that it's only available on DAT tape, or Super Audio CD or some other music format you can't play?

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   NOBODY, May 27th, 2004 @ 11:50am

   
   

   That's happening all the time now with the new write protection schemes and the incredibly wide variety of them that have been popping up in music stores over the last year or two.

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   Brentis, May 27th, 2004 @ 4:18pm

   
   

   Yeah- but are they all free like Kazaa? I've learnt about more bands using Kazaa than I would've if I ever had to pay for them. Now, although not an avid concert-goer am actually considering attending some events.
   
   For example, just d/l'd some Black Eyed Peas Videos. They rock, plus that chick is hot!!
   
   lol, learnt..

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   thecaptain, May 28th, 2004 @ 5:44am

   
   

   The myriad of different formats are a pain sometimes, I'll grant.
   
   But it wouldn't be sooo bad if we were allowed to transfer from one medium to another (CD to Hard drive is my favorite example). This is something that the industry pushes hard to criminalize, if they haven't done so already (I stopped paying attention, its become wayyy too ridiculous)
   
   However, if the file formats are all digital, then its really trivial to convert from one to the other (from wav to mp3 to ogg or whatever) with just a bit of googling, so choose whichever you like and work with that...I don't think its a real serious inconvenience.

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   Anonymous Coward, May 28th, 2004 @ 6:50am

   
   

   My sky is grey today. And again, variety is good. I can all to easily imagine a world where music is only available in WMA and that scares me. So give me the different formats, sites, etc. As with all things, eventually I (and you) will declare a winner by default (think VHS vs. Beta) and we can get on with more important things.

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   thecaptain, May 31st, 2004 @ 5:19am

   
   

   I don't think a winner was declared by the people in the VHS vs Beta wars though.
   
   

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