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They just have to keep adding new items faster than you can listen to them!
by mrspeaker 5y ago
They just have to keep adding new items faster than you can listen to them!
- westcort 5y agoLove your books! https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/3887 https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/3887 and Bellish looks pretty cool too (https://www.bellish.co/ https://www.bellish.co/).
- em3rgent0rdr 5y agoHmm...though I'm wondering were there always greater than 365 full days of audio recorded every year? I'm not sure that is true for the late 1920's-1930's, though by today (and maybe by the 1960's or so) that has become true. So I guess it will eventually become infinite with the metric of being able to listen to them all, though at the moment I'm not sure it is quite infinite yet.
- westcort 5y agoThere must have been a moment when the total recorded output of the world surpassed the total time a person, a city, a country (have we reached that point yet?) could listen or consume all of them. I suspect we will reach a point where songs are played once only, never to be heard again.
- jl6 5y agoCombine public domain growth with Sturgeon’s Law, and you need 10x lifetimes of material in order to have a full lifetime’s worth of good material. Increase that to 100x to have a full lifetime’s worth of great material. Working against this is the “sliding window” effect of older materials becoming less relevant to modern audiences, and hence “less good”. Counter this with longer cultural continuity that turns the sliding window into a stretching window.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoIs that even possible though? Copyright expires after 100+ years these days. We'll probably be dead before we see new works enter the public domain. Assuming the monopolists don't extend it even more.