Twilight of the CD? Not if It Can Be Reinvented

With the online swapping of songs growing at a crippling rate, the CD is being rethought, repackaged and, in some cases, repriced.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/business/yourmoney/ 23MUSI.html?ex=1... 68964&ei=1&en=c2647a3e15f660c5

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The problem with this is that it assumes that people with large classical libraries will be ripping them into MP3 and sharing them on Kazaa 24/7, which is ridiculous, because the type of people that collect hundreds or thousands of classical CDs will be listening to them on their stereo systems, and I guarantee you that they never have ripped a single CD >> MP3 in their lives. This is just more scare-tactics by the recording industry to gouge us more!

I'll have to disagree with that statement as I've seen a few regular posters here (i.e., serious collectors) make mention of alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.classical and point to specific works they've posted there.

Indeed....I've never posted, but I DL from there often (and that often leads to a purchase) and I usually tons of personally ripped Mp3s on hand (my old drive with them died, and I need a new drive...)

Of course, I also don't use a stero, but rather headphones...