 DaSneaky1Done wall to block them allPremium,MVM
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The Lou
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| Fuzzy math? said by Article:
To illustrate how easy it is to steal music, Grammy officials hired three computer-savvy students to test how many songs they could download from illegal file-sharing Web sites. In two days, the students grabbed nearly 6,000 songs, Greene said.
I wonder if they were doing this full time or in between classes. While this is probably an unimportant question compared to the point trying to be made, I find that 3 people downloading almost 6000 songs to be a bit inflated.
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| Makes me wonder if they just download the same song 6000 times.
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six9
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Atlanta, GA | reply to DaSneaky1D
Geeze, 6000 songs in two days? In the heyday of Napster, I think I would only pull maybe 40 songs in two days. And that is a very high estimate. Let me look....my roommate and I downloaded 68 songs on Sept 30, 2000. That was the most we ever did get at one time. And we were on Napster most of that day. These kids that did the 6000 songs were probably up 48 hours and downloading anything that ended in mp3. I wonder how many of the same songs they got. Sounds like Mr. Greene is practicing some serious bovine scatology. |
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 Doctor FourMy other vehicle is a TARDISPremium
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Dallas, TX | reply to DaSneaky1D
There's another name for this type of exaggeration:
doublespeak. An English professor named William Lutz
coined this phrase (based on George Orwell's 1984) to
describe when language is used to mislead or deceive. He
refers to this type of deception as "inflationary language".
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're
very sophisticated idiots." -
Doctor Who
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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Tulsa, OK | reply to DaSneaky1D
They forgot to mention that they were giving a free OC3 connection during that time and ran a download script which just downloaded anything.mp3 |
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DaSneaky1Done wall to block them allPremium,MVM
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How about a different look at the numbers, shall we?
If I listen to any mp3 with an average of 3 minutes each continueiously for 24 hours, I will have heard 480 mp3s'. Multiply this by the 3 college students and this amounts to 1440 mp3's. I don't even see the logic of trying to download 6000 different mp3's. Between studying, partying and going to class when do students have time to listen to their warez? I seriously doubt that these downloaded songs listened to at all, just taking up space on hard drives and servers. Even hard core downloaders of pirated songs cant possibly listen to all these mp3's. They are busy downloading for braggin rights, that is all. If you take away ones ability to download makes no difference in the number of cd sales.
On the other hand, for my own music collection I usually listen to the radio. If there is something I feel I like I will buy it. I mostly listen to classic rock stations because most of the new music released these days is just crap. There are too many "models with microphones" and dancing fairys compared to real musicians playing real instruments. What many have already said on this topic, quality over quanity before I spend my money.
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| Quality over quanity, I couldn't agree more. The catch is that everyone has their own music taste. In selling CDs you can't cater to everyone. With mp3's you can. Case and point, I like Monteral Ska music, but where am I going to get a CD of it if I live in ... Joe City, Some State.
I also listen to the BBC Internet Radio, right now one of their top played song is Puretone - Addicted to base, there is no chance of a DnB song like that being played on a pop conservitive radio station in North America. |
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