Thursday, December 23, 2021

Listening to CDs and vinyl, etc.

 https://www.wired.com/story/you-should-listen-to-cds/#intcid=recommendations_right-rail-personalized-popularity-mab-experiment_05b57b2d-9aff-4289-a744-f8d1bde6d81b_personalized-popularity-mab-strategy

Even the DVD was phased out quite a while ago. However, its important to try to keep all or as many data storage formats as much as possible. This is now an era when almost anything can be sent down the memory hole to be forgotten about. Any digitally stored data can be turned into digital kindling as a new version of book burning. 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Parker#Napster

https://www.businessinsider.com/sean-parker-life-career-napster-facebook-billionaire-pictures-2020-3

Eventually Napster was put to sleep due to so many copyright violations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A&M_Records,_Inc._v._Napster,_Inc. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster#Shutdown


Still such a cool song & video by Ice-T distributing music & information, long before the days of peer-to-peer_file_sharing.

Ice-T - I'm Your Pusher (Official Video) from the album 'Power' (1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h5JO2sJ3kw