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Re: [microsound] Collectibility of Digital Files?
On Feb 16, 2005, at 2:48 AM, Kevin Ponto wrote:
By "collector", I think he meant someone who is interested in the rare
finds and complete catalogs, bootlegs and so forth as well as huge
libraries, as opposed to people who just amass as many files as they
can with little regard for what they have.
The point of course, is that the limitations of physical distribution
have provided people with the pastime of collecting, yet the digital
distribution model is not hampered by these limitations. So will
collecting, in this sense, survive and if it does, how will it differ
from today?
Personally, I've had the experience of trying to track down a rare mp3
online. it's no easy chore, almost as hard as trying to track down
something in real life. It was an mp3 that was only posted to an
artists website for a few weeks. I grabbed it and had for a while,
then I lost it (fried computer parralled a physically corrupted backup
cd) and spent six months or so trying o track it down on p2p networks
and the internet before I found it again. The whole experience, and
the rush I got when I finally found it, was not unlike that of
physical collecting.
Anyone else have a similar experience or insight?
Collecting is an obsessive behavior. My obsessive behaviors come out in
other ways.
I have thought about this in the past. One thing I came up with was
releasing mp3s on my site, and then having the server remove them after
N number of downloads. Of course such an effort is easily thwarted by
any number of means. I think its best to give up the idea of collecting
really.
Actually, I do sort of collect stuffed octopi...
- John
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