So, is this whole KaZaA/MP3 scare going to really scare all the people from trading mp3s massively? Your thoughts? Please respond. Even you random people that come here =)

My thoughts? Well, I don’t think they can get rid of MP3s as a medium, period. I also don’t think they can get rid of the companies with programs that allow people to share music massively. If you close one, someone out there will see an opportunity to build one up and the whole cycle will start again. HOWEVER, I do think that singleing out people and suing them or whatnot, IS a start. It won’t hurt the companies directly, but it WILL scare people from sharing and downloading. Maybe… Ha. I’m not sure… We’ll soon see. Even after the whole scare in the newspaper, I see 3,567,487 users online… How are you going to scare all of them? (I say as I CLOSE my KaZaA Lite, while my brother in the other room deletes his copy from his computer) I think pay MP3 WOULD be a good idea if it was implemented in the FIRST place; try to do that now, I’m sure it’ll happen but with a BIG struggle. A BIG plauss for pay MP3s is the quality. How many times have you DLed a song and it was either corroded, cut off, or looped? Don’t have to worry about that anymore with the pay services. I know Apple is running one, I can’t recall who else is. Supposedly, Apple is only Mac right now. Not sure if they ported to the PC yet… Do YOU remember the last time YOU bought a CD? I don’t. Mainly ’cause I hated spending $11-15 something for a CD when I ONLY LIKED ONE FRIGGEN SONG! Singles were cool, but some songs never even came out on single CDs. If the music company wants to be jankie about it, fine. But, don’t expect me to buy any CDs soon. I’ll just listen to the radio or listen to a DVD in the car. Yes, I said listen… Maybe, if the music companies were smart they’d sell custom CDs or something. Pick the songs I want and buy the CDs close at a cheap price somewhat close to cost. We all know how much a CD costs nowadays, you buy/manufacture them in BULK! I’m not asking for 200 MP3s on one disc, but at leasst give me a choice of songs if I’m to pay my hard earned cash (yeah right) for a CD. Alas, I write this all purely for flame, since it’s too late, no one’s changing and MP3s WILL stay here for good! <^> Music companies. We all know alot of artists don’t care, they make a sh*t load of money from concerts, public appearances, commercials, ETC. YOU’RE just greedy to fill your pockets with MY money from MY EMPTY pockets… Once again <^>

So, after four days off of work, I get back and find I’m no longer working on Command and Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour Expansion. BOOOOOO. (I have to buy C&C soon, after I get a new comp that can handle it, and ZH when it comes out! But, I know moO will kill me) I’m now working on EA’s new Lego game called Bionicle. Ah, the greatest thing about my job, other than playing video games for 8 hours, is the fact that I get to play games (and beat it too, heh) that I would probably not likely ever dream about playing. Well, that’s a little harsh but somewhat true. I don’t think I would have rushed out to the store and bought this game. I think there are only a few games I WOULD rush out and buy; maybe a Final Fantasy series, or a tactical espionage game like Metal Gear Solid or Socom, maybe even an Everquest expantion LOL …(wait, I hear they just made one live yesterday)… Bionicle is just some adventure game which stars the robots famed from those little blocks we used to play with as kids. But, now they have robots? That’s not Lego-ish, HA. It’s a VERY basic game, easy, but very trying on the mind. Hard to imagine something easy but hard, eh? I don’t really know how to explain it. I mean, even the easiest of games has its moments where it can be hard… Now I’m just rambling… Ok, its hard but easy. I’ll leave it as that. But, yeah, if a game has a save function and it’s supposed to have a 3-5 hour play time, there’s something wrong and it’s too easy… Now, finding EVERYTHING in the game is a little harder. I’m like missing 1 gem from like every lvl, and they’re like hard to find. Damnit!