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A story about what happens when very accessible recording tech, automated plagiarism-search, dirt cheap mass storage & sharing, a relatively small set of combin
by brimble 5y ago
A story about what happens when very accessible recording tech, automated plagiarism-search, dirt cheap mass storage & sharing, a relatively small set of combinations of sounds that people find appealing, and long copyright terms collide.
http://spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html http://spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html
IMO we're already about where this story projects we'd end up surprisingly fast under that set of circumstances, and are just kinda in denial about it.