On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 02:41:25 GMT, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

:The cost of the blank data disk is trivial on a per-song basis. I casually
:collect LPs and tapes of old flying songs from the wars of the past
:century, and have been copying them to my hard disk and burning compilation
:CDs (gotta have SOMETHING to sing along with, on the way to the airport).
:I can generally cram at least twenty of these on a single CD.

You gotta get an MP3 disk player. 10 hours of music on a disk. Last
time I was at Fry's (perhaps the only place on earth more evil than
Cap'n Zoom's office) they had one for $24.

I'd also like to take a stab at defending peer-to-peer. Shortly
before my father died he asked me to find the lyrics to a song he'd
loved as a kid -Abdul Abulbul Amir. I found the lyrics with Google in
a few seconds, opened Kazzaa, and found copies of 6 different
performances of it, spanning 50 years. None would have been available
at any price through the "legit" market. The author has been dead for
80 years - and it was stolen from him when he wrote it, in the 1870's.
No one owns the rights to it. But without a robust P2P network, I
never would have found it.