Re: [microsound] Collectibility of Digital Files?

[Kevin Ponto <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?

kp


On Feb 15, 2005, at 8:26 PM, John Nowak wrote:

> On Feb 15, 2005, at 10:17 PM, Kevin Ponto wrote:
>
> > Since it is inevitable that music as a media will be a virtual object 
> > what will happen to the collector?
>
> People already have massive mp3 collections that they never listen to. 
> People are already collecting. Where's the dilemma?
>
> - John
>
>
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