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Understanding this now, but I don’t want to keep books. I just want to listen to them and move on. Like Spotify. If I want to listen to Going to California by Les zeppelin, I don’t want to buy the whole album.
Our library let's you download 3 at a time and they disappear from your device after a certain period of time. You don't get to keep them on your device...just borrow them
Just checked our local library’s catalogue. They don’t have nearly any of the authors I want. Oh well. Crazy that all this time I thought you could just stream books like Spotify does music. Time to start the bootlegging again.
A few years ago PBS ran a series America Reads. People entered favorite fiction titles. They picked top 100. A few on the list I have absolutely no interest in but am reading all the rest. Got about three fourths read so far. Many authors I had not known about. And not a bad book yet. While I don't miss my long daily BART ride to Genentech, I did get a lot of reading done. Fortunately I live in a state that doesn't ban books.t
The credit system sucks a little at first, but most people won't listen to more than one book per month so you build up a few credits. You can also usually preview books. I've had audible for a few years and have built up more credits than I need, so its a system that works well over time. There are also tons of free books n stuff. You don't have to "keep" anything but it's on your library if you ever need it again. If you cancel your membership you keep the books in your library but lose your credits. Right now I am looking for books to download so I can cancel my subscription for awhile and catch up.
That's my point and thats bullshit, bro. What if someone started stealing your work, your content, the way you make a living and called it "bootlegging"? Why people think stealing content is OK is beyond me. If someone stole your stuff, you would call it what it is. STEALING.
Spotify pays the musicians, he's not talking about using Torrent. When I was a young kid I used to use Napster, I thought it was great getting all the music for free. Paying $20 for a CD back then seemed like such a rip off. Now that I am older, I have far greater appreciation for peoples hard work making good content and am willing to pay for it in order to incentivize them to continue making more good content. When I was a kid, I didn't care about any of that, nor did I really understand it haha.
He said "bootlegging." Obviously, I create content for a living. I had this same discussion with my own kids many times. When you steal content, no matter what you call it or what your groovy rationalization, you are taking money from someone's family.
Once you've bought the Beatles Revolver on LP, 8 trk, cassette and then cd you have every right to make a backup copy in my view....I've only copied music I've already bought and sometimes bought in several formats....record companies don't reimburse you for your old 8trk tape purchases or cassette purchases once they introduce a new playback format. Otherwise I think it's theft to copy something you haven't paid for. I burned a lot of my cassette and LP collections onto CD so I don't lose what I've already paid for.
If someone stole my stuff I wouldn't have access to it anymore. Not paying for something I was never going to pay for isn't stealing. It may be copyright infringement, but it's not theft. Don't want normal people to infringe your copyright for entertainment? Come up with a better means of distribution.
If it's easier to pirate your content than buy it then you are doing something wrong. I pay for netflix. I pay for audible. I pay for Amazon, Disney, and a few others. I get both Google and Amazon's music services included. But I have found that watching the bootleg versions of nearly everything is just so much easier (after the initial setup, of course).
