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Fausto

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What do you say to someone who has a digital music collection that exceeds 900,000 songs?

What do you say to someone who has a digital music collection that exceeds 900,000 songs? This was the question I was pondering during my long drive to interview the man who claims he is on a quest to own a copy of every song ever recorded. What do you say? I think the only way to begin such an interview would be to ask ?why???

When I pulled into the driveway of the King of the Pirates, an upper middle class neighborhood of stylish homes and SUV?s, Infiniti?s, and more Mini-Coopers than necessary, I was surprised by the normalcy of it all. His home was nothing short of spectacular, his wife a mid-30?s ex-underwear model (honest!), and his two kids well groomed, apparently intelligent, and very wired. (As in technology, not ADD) This is not the home I would have thought would be the enclave of someone out to pirate the hell out of the music industry. This was going to be very interesting?

Our man, let?s call him Doug, greeted me with a huge hug, a broad smile on his face, drink in hand (Grand Mariner of all things), and invited me in to his den. He was absolutely thrilled to finally be able to talk to someone who was actually interested in what he was doing. Seems that ?the wife? as he calls her, was bored to tears hearing about his latest collections, or the latest Bit Torrent site he found; a treasure trove of hard to find music all ripped at 256-bits. The wife wants to know why he doesn?t play more golf, like his friends. ?Golf is the most boring game in the world, what I am doing is much more fun.?
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yllus

yllus

Elite Member & Lifer
Aug 20, 2000
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Well, somebody needs a life.

Though it'd be kind of cool to have every song out there. Then you could get some voice recognition thing going and say while guests are around, "Computer, play ____." Yeah, that would be sweet.
 
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MercenaryForHire

Lifer
Jan 31, 2002
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Originally posted by: Fausto
What do you say to someone who has a digital music collection that exceeds 900,000 songs?

What do you say to someone who has a digital music collection that exceeds 900,000 songs? This was the question I was pondering during my long drive to interview the man who claims he is on a quest to own a copy of every song ever recorded. What do you say? I think the only way to begin such an interview would be to ask ?why???

When I pulled into the driveway of the King of the Pirates, an upper middle class neighborhood of stylish homes and SUV?s, Infiniti?s, and more Mini-Coopers than necessary, I was surprised by the normalcy of it all. His home was nothing short of spectacular, his wife a mid-30?s ex-underwear model (honest!), and his two kids well groomed, apparently intelligent, and very wired. (As in technology, not ADD) This is not the home I would have thought would be the enclave of someone out to pirate the hell out of the music industry. This was going to be very interesting?

Our man, let?s call him Doug, greeted me with a huge hug, a broad smile on his face, drink in hand (Grand Mariner of all things), and invited me in to his den. He was absolutely thrilled to finally be able to talk to someone who was actually interested in what he was doing. Seems that ?the wife? as he calls her, was bored to tears hearing about his latest collections, or the latest Bit Torrent site he found; a treasure trove of hard to find music all ripped at 256-bits. The wife wants to know why he doesn?t play more golf, like his friends. ?Golf is the most boring game in the world, what I am doing is much more fun.?
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http://What do you say to a Lifer who screws up a link that horribly ... and to a REPOST at that? :D

- M4H
 
TheLonelyPhoenix

TheLonelyPhoenix

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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: Fausto
What do you say to someone who has a digital music collection that exceeds 900,000 songs?

What do you say to someone who has a digital music collection that exceeds 900,000 songs? This was the question I was pondering during my long drive to interview the man who claims he is on a quest to own a copy of every song ever recorded. What do you say? I think the only way to begin such an interview would be to ask ?why???

When I pulled into the driveway of the King of the Pirates, an upper middle class neighborhood of stylish homes and SUV?s, Infiniti?s, and more Mini-Coopers than necessary, I was surprised by the normalcy of it all. His home was nothing short of spectacular, his wife a mid-30?s ex-underwear model (honest!), and his two kids well groomed, apparently intelligent, and very wired. (As in technology, not ADD) This is not the home I would have thought would be the enclave of someone out to pirate the hell out of the music industry. This was going to be very interesting?

Our man, let?s call him Doug, greeted me with a huge hug, a broad smile on his face, drink in hand (Grand Mariner of all things), and invited me in to his den. He was absolutely thrilled to finally be able to talk to someone who was actually interested in what he was doing. Seems that ?the wife? as he calls her, was bored to tears hearing about his latest collections, or the latest Bit Torrent site he found; a treasure trove of hard to find music all ripped at 256-bits. The wife wants to know why he doesn?t play more golf, like his friends. ?Golf is the most boring game in the world, what I am doing is much more fun.?
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http://What do you say to a Lifer who screws up a link that horribly ... and to a REPOST at that? :D

- M4H
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You guys are so brutal. :)

<--- Also linking challenged.
 
SP33Demon

SP33Demon

Lifer
Jun 22, 2001
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Originally posted by: yllus
Well, somebody needs a life.

Though it'd be kind of cool to have every song out there. Then you could get some voice recognition thing going and say while guests are around, "Computer, play ____." Yeah, that would be sweet.
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MercenaryForHire

Lifer
Jan 31, 2002
40,819
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"Because, like I said, it?s illegal. I don?t distribute the music, I only download it." - "Doug" justifying why he won't give away a Mick Jagger song to the interviewer.

Wonder if he's going to catalogue the polyps in his lower intestine next, since he's sure got a clear view of it from his head's current location. :p

I hereby dub this guy the "MP3 Miser." He won't even let his own damned kids tap into the collection, ffs. "No son, this is Daddy's stash. You have to buy all yours legally. Never mind that I have two broadband lines dedicated to piracy, you pay for it!"

- M4H
 
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Ausm

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
25,213
14
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Originally posted by: Fausto
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: Fausto
Fixed the link, you can all blow me, etc. :roll:
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You'd like that, wouldn't you. ;) :p :D

- M4H
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Pffft. It'd be the highlight of your collective lifetimes. :p
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I'm not going to fight to be first in line ;)

Ausm
 
Chunkee

Chunkee

Lifer
Jul 28, 2002
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what a dope, he should be flogging his underwear model wife and giving her the gulpage

jC
 
yhelothar

yhelothar

Lifer
Dec 11, 2002
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So he has around 7 terabytes of music? W:shocked:W.
I thought my friend had a lot with 80gigs.
 
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