73 gigs
Bad news, boys: the RIAA says that ripping CDs for use on an mp3 player is not necessarily "fair use". In their recent filing, they also said that "Similarly, creating a back-up copy of a music CD is not a non-infringing use....". So whatever good reason you had for that external hard drive, it's time to come up with an even better reason.
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Wells: yes. You should destroy all of that 80's music, just in case.
S/T: I'm not surprised that record sales have sharply fallen, but didn't that trend begin before the mp3 players were widely introduced? As you said: record companies are not nimble and prefer things to remain the same. So they want the same music over and over again, which has hamstrung a lot of good artists. They're losing this war on more than one front.
Aside from a couple Christmas presents, I don't think I've bought a CD off a big label in the last 4 years or so. I moved to the city and discovered the joy of going to shows and hearing the songs live before I buy the CD. And I know that most of my $10 or $15 goes back to the band, not to a record label. But I know that all those folks also have day jobs that they will probably never be able to walk away from entirely. So for them, I'm not sure what will work.
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Trope, at 10:47 AM
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