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> You are sitting in a chair in the sky. A chair in the sky is great. But in the 1990s we were travelling without moving through the aggregate of everybody's
by jancsika 4y ago
> You are sitting in a chair in the sky.
A chair in the sky is great.
But in the 1990s we were travelling without moving through the aggregate of everybody's music collection that they already paid for.
In the 2000s we were using idle bandwidth to move the distribution cost closer to zero than ever before.
In light of that, I wonder if in a decade you'll be praising an uncomfortable sardine can that drags us across the desert with better than 25% departure delays.
- dash2 4y ago>But in the 1990s we were travelling without moving through the aggregate of everybody's music collection that they already paid for. It sounds as if you are claiming that because person X already paid for a CD, everybody else connected to them via Napster has a right to listen to that music. If so, I disagree. People complain that Spotify et al. underpay musicians. Piracy pays them zero. Meanwhile: I pay once for all the music on Spotify; I can listen to stuff like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T-H-fVlHE0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T-H-fVlHE0 which was never available pirated; anything I want starts playing within seconds; and it's conveniently provided to me on my phone, along with playlists that regularly find me music and podcasts I like. Which aspect was better in the 2000s?