From eric hill Sent Wed, Jan 27th 1999, 16:38
>> > I really disagree with this attitude. A lot of people into computers >seem >> > to forget that the vast majority of people in the world don't have >> > computers, & (obviously) even fewer people have computers with web & >> >sound capabilities. well, while we're at it, while they probably do have electricity, the majority of The World no doubt get by in their daily lives without stereos. is it back to sticks and water for instruments in the interests of appealing to the majority? it's not like all musicians are foregoing everything that went before to make music listenable only on computers, bochum welt notwithstanding. >> Hence my objection to Public Enemy doing an MP3 release. > >MP4, actually. the thing about PE and MP4 that gets me is that MP4 isn't related to MP3 (,2,1...) at all: "MP4" was co-opted by a private company for their proprietary, 'no free player needed,' self-running music delivery system. kind of like divx, i guess. eric onnow: tetsu inoue : world receiver (instinct)