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Originally Posted by sbroome
This explains quite a bit about the education level of many internet users. People actually pretend that wikipedia represents some sort of academic standard. I wouldn't consider this progress.
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Not all progress is positive. Digital audio and video, for example, are both of a lower quality than their analogue counterparts. But their convenience factor compensates for that.
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Originally Posted by sbroome
In another thread somewhere I posted the top pirated music from last year. It was all READILY available - legally - on multiple sites.
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But not anywhere near the price it would cost them to rent it from the library. I'm talking about disposable entertainment, things they pick up on a whim, either because they want to see what it is like, it is something they would only want to read/watch/listen to once, or they just don't value it enough to buy it. That is what they used libraries for.