To me it all comes down to quality. I wish the RIAA would grasp this. FM radio is a pretty lossy medium - not only is the sound on CDs heavily processed and compressed these days, but radio stations add their own processing and compression. Compound that with MP3 encoding and you've got a pretty sucky "copy".
That "copy" may be good enough for listening to on little earbuds while riding on a noisy bus or train, or while jogging, or any other very casual listening experience. But run that "copy" through a decent home stereo set up and it will become painfully obvious how bad it is. (Actually it probably won't for most folks because they don't have a decent stereo, and most of the "music" they listen to has all the life sucked out of it beforehand anyway.)
The home theater folks - especially the display makers - seem to get this "quality" issue. The RIAA seems more focused on the $$$ than the product, and how to differentiate the genuine product (CDs, DVD-Audio, original manufactured material) from all the pirated "copies" people can get their hands on.
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To me it all comes down to quality. I wish the RIAA would grasp this. FM radio is a pretty lossy medium - not only is the sound on CDs heavily processed and compressed these days, but radio stations add their own processing and compression. Compound that with MP3 encoding and you've got a pretty sucky "copy".
That "copy" may be good enough for listening to on little earbuds while riding on a noisy bus or train, or while jogging, or any other very casual listening experience. But run that "copy" through a decent home stereo set up and it will become painfully obvious how bad it is. (Actually it probably won't for most folks because they don't have a decent stereo, and most of the "music" they listen to has all the life sucked out of it beforehand anyway.)
The home theater folks - especially the display makers - seem to get this "quality" issue. The RIAA seems more focused on the $$$ than the product, and how to differentiate the genuine product (CDs, DVD-Audio, original manufactured material) from all the pirated "copies" people can get their hands on.
- Jasen.