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EVMad t1_j6ha6cb wrote

Reply to Did pirated music help the iPod become popular? by EglinAirBaseIntern

I had a lot of CDs so I ripped those over. It was way easier than getting stuff on my MiniDisc machine and I didn’t have to mess around with fiddly small discs, everything was on the one thing. The big difference though was the iTunes Store. To get a single track you could just get it from the store and it was cheap so I never saw any reason to pirate anything. That’s all that was really needed, a good store with reasonable prices. Despite the DRM (which the music industry required) it was still a good deal, and eventually with enough traction Apple was able to get the DRM requirement removed (Jobs wrote a really good letter to them about why DRM was pointless as it just encouraged piracy)

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zachtheperson t1_j6h7ykq wrote

Reply to Did pirated music help the iPod become popular? by EglinAirBaseIntern

Yes and no. "Music Sharing," as it was called in the day was pretty popular, and most people just saw it as no different then burning CDs or making mix cassette tapes for your friends. In the same way people would record movies to VHS when they came on TV and share them with friends as well, and nobody really thought about it as "piracy." So when the internet became good enough to share large amounts of songs, everyone just kind of continued doing the same things, just on a larger scale.

So it wasn't necessarily that people thought "Finally! A device all my pirate music!" but more that they already had a library of music acquired from "multiple different sources," such as ripped CDs, friends CDs, and yeah, some they downloaded online. The iPod just gave them a device that let them easily carry around that library, no matter where the songs came from, even if piracy helped make those libraries large in the first place.

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Rise_03 t1_j6h4nj0 wrote

Reply to Why do you listen to sad music? by rusthd

I feel like my emotions are validated and it feels good to know that there are others who have gone through the same thing, if not worse. So I end up feeling less alone and more powerful than before.

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printers_rock t1_j6h3lrr wrote

Reply to Why do you listen to sad music? by rusthd

I thought about this a lot. I wrote a really long response and deleted it before submitting. Because I kept having a problem with the premise of "sad." Like, what is and is not "sad music"? I mean, I guess we can disqualify most fast tempo music, right? Like, good luck finding a 200bpm sad song ... nobody can cry that fast. Four on the floor is also not something I would associate with holding back tears. So I feel compelled to consider this even further as I listen to a lot of slower / downtempo stuff.

Slower music automatically brings with it a higher likelihood of being "sad" but its not necessarily sad. Like a lot of the ambient stuff I listen to is not so much sad as it is ...something. I don't know what it is. It's evocative. But evocative of what? I definitely feel something. But what am I feeling? Like when I listen to Haelos' Full Circle album. Or Max Million's Afterimages album. What the fuck am I feeling? It's not sad. I'm not crying (usually). Portishead isn't sad. Right? So what is sad music?

And that leads me back around. Do I even listen to sad music? Or do I just listen to slow music that is generally evocative? I definitely have a good set of slow seductive sexy-time music. Oddly I think a lot of that is in the same ballpark as "sad" music. But should I even be in this thread? Now I don't even know what emotions I feel. Thanks a lot.

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