[srean]

What's wrong with carrying your own music on your own storage device ? With appropriate backups of course and they neednt be mutually exclusive. The article does bring up this point of view towards the end.

I dislike the possibility, however remote, of being cut off from my music at the whim of a service provider or the government. I come from India, the current government is ever so trigger happy about cutting off the internet and/or web sites because someone said something that did not show them in the best of lights.

[edmcnulty101]

That's exactly what I did before Spotify.

Just torrented the artist and put it in my own device.