As always the answer is complex. CDs are manufactured and therefore like any other physical product use resources. However music downloads bear their own overhead being stored on huge energy intensive server farms all over the globe.
Farms are environmentally costly to build, house, cool and maintain. Downloads use energy as the data is shunted from the server farm to your PC and don't forget that your PC is a resource hungry device too.
All in all there may not be that much difference between the environmental cost of the CD compared to downloads but at least with the CD you have a long lasting high quality backup of your music.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
How often do you listen to music?
According to some sources listening to music is an activity that most of us do more than any other, apart from sleeping. How often do you listen to music? Have you added up all the occasions when you listen to music in a typical day? Do you wake up to music, listen to it while commuting, at work, working out or for relaxation? It's not something that we consciously think about but how much would you miss music if it were no longer there?
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Monday, February 2, 2009
Pirate sharing films are throttling Hollywood
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The Times reports that 'Pirate-sharing films are throttling Hollywood'. Some people feel that new movies and music cost too much, whether for downloads or for physical CDs and DVDs. Whatever the format we are all entitled to object to the price but stealing the product is not a valid form of objection.
I may desire a movie and feel that it is too expensive and that the Producers are ripping me off so feel justified in downloading it illegally. However if I see an iPod in a store and reckon that it's too much money I wouldn't just take it for free.
Many people need to be rewarded for their work in bringing the content to the consumer; Composers, Artists, Actors, Producers, Directors, Graphic Designers, Distributors and so on. Rarely does the work go directly from the artist to the consumer. The bulk of the material we view and hear has involved dozens, perhaps hundreds of people. So there is just as much loss and injustice when a download theft takes place as when a physical theft does.
Update: Pirate bay Founders Walk the Plank over Free Downloads
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[/caption]The Times reports that 'Pirate-sharing films are throttling Hollywood'. Some people feel that new movies and music cost too much, whether for downloads or for physical CDs and DVDs. Whatever the format we are all entitled to object to the price but stealing the product is not a valid form of objection.
I may desire a movie and feel that it is too expensive and that the Producers are ripping me off so feel justified in downloading it illegally. However if I see an iPod in a store and reckon that it's too much money I wouldn't just take it for free.
Many people need to be rewarded for their work in bringing the content to the consumer; Composers, Artists, Actors, Producers, Directors, Graphic Designers, Distributors and so on. Rarely does the work go directly from the artist to the consumer. The bulk of the material we view and hear has involved dozens, perhaps hundreds of people. So there is just as much loss and injustice when a download theft takes place as when a physical theft does.
Update: Pirate bay Founders Walk the Plank over Free Downloads
[polldaddy poll=1334823]
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