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Re: [ARSCLIST] CD versus Download was "All hail the analogue revolution..."
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Don Cox wrote:
> On 26/09/06, Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Why save anything, when, for less than the cost of the storage space,
> > you can download another copy or listen to it inline?
>
> Because you don't trust a commercial company to save things for you?
>
> Web sites and servers have a habit of vanishing.
As do master tapes, discs, etc. Plus...with the problems in
cataloging...how can you find a copy...and then, with the copyrights...you
can't preserve it or you might have to travel 3,000 miles to hear it,
assuming you can find some place that has it.
Karl (always looking on the bright side)