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Telkom will use this article to show how many mp3's you can buy locally and legally before you hit your cap . But what it wont show , is that you cant buy and d/l movies or games , because your cap wont handle it . Would like it if someone would take the time and work out how many mp3s you can d/l on a 3 gig cap . Then how much that would cost , seeing as each mp3 is R12.
Then try d/l a game , like HL2 , using steam , or use ea downloader after making your legal purchase of 2142 and then d/ling the 2 gigs worth of game . Lord knows the 2142 game demo ALONE was 1.1 gig , one third of the cap gone for a legal demo . Trying to explain to telkom how using broadband and getting capped by doing nothing illegal , it like trying to build sand castles on the wing of a boeing , at 30 000 feet and at cruising speed .
Then try d/l a game , like HL2 , using steam , or use ea downloader after making your legal purchase of 2142 and then d/ling the 2 gigs worth of game . Lord knows the 2142 game demo ALONE was 1.1 gig , one third of the cap gone for a legal demo . Trying to explain to telkom how using broadband and getting capped by doing nothing illegal , it like trying to build sand castles on the wing of a boeing , at 30 000 feet and at cruising speed .
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As long as there is no competition to Telkom in the fixed line business we are ****ed and we know it. Telkom knows it. The government who owns a big chunk of Telkom knows it. The individuals in government who own a stake of Telkom knows it. The people who can make the changes needed don't dare do so because they know they risk their political careers and the only income they know they can generate because they are simply not qualified to do anything else but a politically appointed job ala Ivy.
Change will come, but it seems like this government is bent on making every mistake in the book before it will happen.
Change will come, but it seems like this government is bent on making every mistake in the book before it will happen.
The problem is this government won't use the book - they rather write their own (all 4 pages of it!!) - vetted and sanctioned by telkom.
I do a bit of DJing and needed to get a few requested tracks (I was not about to buy 3 CDs for 3 tracks). I investigated I-tunes and found out that when I looked was not available to those of us on the dark continent of Africa. I then checked Musicas site....Firstly its some ***y format, wma or something. You cant see what bit rate the files you are getting are, I wont mess with anything less than 192kbps THen there are all sorts of restrictions on what you do with the tune and if your box crashes there are all sorts of complexities in getting backups which you have to download again! And lastly, I dj using a Native instruments package and it only works using MP3s so its all useless anyway.
What I want is to walk into a shop with a blank CD and get the tracks I want burnt there and then as a .wav file.
To many people wanting a pound of flesh and despite it all being digital they want to charge you the same as you pay for a CD, thats after you have to pay for caps, telkom lines etc which the companies dont factor into the price.
@ Kabal, you are so right!
Now whats happening about free local bandwidth??
What I want is to walk into a shop with a blank CD and get the tracks I want burnt there and then as a .wav file.
To many people wanting a pound of flesh and despite it all being digital they want to charge you the same as you pay for a CD, thats after you have to pay for caps, telkom lines etc which the companies dont factor into the price.
@ Kabal, you are so right!
Now whats happening about free local bandwidth??
On another note, if I own a vinyl record of a tune, say a Jimi Hendrix tune, can I download it legaly via a sharing prog? Did I not buy the rights to the song when I bought the record? (Id do it for a better quality version without the scratches etc) Any legal people here?