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Old 01-22-07, 13:07   #59 (permalink)
Gamera
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Gamera LEVEL +10 - IN GOOD STANDING
I take mine everywhere, and I am basically listening to podcasts constantly in the car now. Its great. I have to drive a fair bit and the radio is just intolerable anymore.

A little off topic, but I am predicting a change in technology down the road, probably in the next year or two. All of the digital content you own will be stored in a massive central database and you'll stream it on demand to whereever you want it.

It has the advantage to me that I'll never scratch or lose or break a CD or DVD, or lose it if my harddrive crashes. I'll always be able to get it streamed to my computer, my satellite radio my satellite TV or what have you wherever I want it. Also It won't clog up my harddrive.

Advantage to copyright holders is that I never have an actual physical copy in my possession so I can't rip it or burn it or share it - just stream it. As far as the entertainment industry is concerned I'm pretty much just "renting" it anyway - its not mine to share. The only thing really holding it back at the moment is bandwidth and that going to be solved in a matter of months.
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