MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: The music industry is officially retarded

>That's fine, I don't really want a CD that I'm going to rip once and then stash in the
>closet'o'junk for the rest of eternity, anyway.

LOL, just about every CD (and DVD for that matter) I've brought is a rip and stash job. I rip it and tuck it away because they are way too fragile to use on a daily or monthly basis.

About 3 months ago, I finally decided to fill in a massive hole in my video collection and buy Star Trek The Original Series (TOS) on DVD or BluRay, and hunted around Big W, K-Mart, and all of the other local DVD shops - no luck, no stock. Then I went to JB HiFi, and they said "No it is now no longer being produced, and you wont find it anywhere - we've had an exclusive deal in Australia for the last 12 months, but that has now expired and it is now no longer sold *anywhere* in Australia".

So, I hunted around on eBay, brought it from a UK seller, ripped it, and stashed the DVDs.

I could easily have downloaded a torrent of all episodes, but I always try and do the right thing.

But, like everything else on CD / DVD / BluRay, it's *way* too fragile to use on a daily / monthly basis.

Oh well, I guess I'll live with my AVI rips on HDD.

And, if anyone tries to tell me they aren't 100% legal, I'll pull out my tea-chests full of DVDs / CDs and shove them up where the sun don't shine. LOL.

Moose