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The Music Man
HellSpam writes "MacNETv2 interviewed a man who is claiming the title of "King of the Pirates". The man has over 900,000 songs, a collection that rivals even the iTunes music store(!). From the article:"I spent the day with a guy who spends every free moment collecting music. So far his music collection rivals Apple's iTunes Music Store, and his goal is to own a copy of every song ever recorded. Can he do it? Maybe, but you know what they say; it's the journey not the destination.""
I bet he has a lot of songs that I never heard, no I never heard them at all, 'till there was him.
What is this guy smoking, wanting to own a copy of every song ever recorded? This clearly cannot be done. What if I record a song on my hard drive, then take it out and smash the hard drive to peices? Oops, this guy fails.
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Can he do it? Maybe, but you know what they say; it's the journey not the destination.
Don't worry, I'm sure he's got Journey in there too.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
He will probably never have to deal with the RIAA ever.
"...a man who is claiming the title of 'King of the Pirates'...and his goal is to own a copy of every song ever recorded..."
He can't have his cake and eat it too. He'll have to settle for "King of the Brainwashed Consumer Zombies" or "King of RIAA Lawsuits"
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
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.
Grand Mariner? That must be a pirate's drink, eh Matey?
Occasionally we land-lubbers will drink Grand Marnier though.
... Slashdotted already? The error page is nice though:
"Problem!?"
It's just so detailed and descriptive.
I'm going to go create my own technology news site, with blackjack and hookers. You know what? Forget the news site.
"RIAA come get me!!"
but working that out, 900,000 songs * ~3MB each is 2.7TB of music, jesus.
what the hell is the point, there is no way to listen to it all that is about 156 years of music!
It's a simple typgraphical error. They misspelled '0wn'.
.. the most confusing slashdotted page I've seen. The article page says, in it's entirety:
"Problem!?"
With both the question mark and exclamation mark, I get to wondering. Is it asking me if there is a problem? Is it telling me there's a problem? Or is this some sort of statement based on quantum theory, and is both asking and telling me there is a problem at the same time?
because the world is really lesser if every copy of Justified is wiped off the face of existence...
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
At $250,000 penalty (I THINK that's the max) per song, the RIAA could make 225 BILLION off this guy alone! I bet they lose that much per year because of him...........
I decided to look at the article
Before posting a reply? I think this is a
Trolling is a art,
Because the prison bus ride is definitely more scenic than the prison yard, right?
Some things, money can't buy. But if you want to get busted for copyright infringement on a shoestring budget, only Slashdot will do.
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Did some tart in a lake give him a sword? Help, help! I'm being oppressed!
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Oh man, Now I know why my internet connection has been so slow for the past 10 Months. =P
900,000 songs * $125,000 per song = (wait for it)
a $112.5 BILLION dollar fine
What's this guy's soulseek/emule IDs? He's going straight to the top of my ban-list for not sharing!
Non-sharers are killing piracy! Help stamp it out!
Indeed.
sulli
RTFJ.
damn..
"Thanks to the remote control I have the attention span of a gerbil."
KING:
Oh, better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly,
Than play a sanctimonious part
With a pirate head and a pirate heart.
Away to the iPod world go you,
Where downloads all are fine to do;
But I'll be true to the song I sing,
And live and die a Pirate King.
For I am a Pirate King!
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King!
For I am a Pirate King!
ALL: You are!
Hurrah for the Pirate King!
KING:
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King.
ALL:
It is!
Hurrah for the Pirate King!
Hurrah for the Pirate King!
KING:
When I sally forth to seek my prey
I help myself in a royal way.
I rip a few more songs, it's true,
Than a well-bred listener ought to do;
But many a head of a *AA,
If he wants music to play his way,
Must manage somehow to get through
More dirty work than e'er I do,
For I am a Pirate King!
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King!
For I am a Pirate King!
ALL:
You are!
Hurrah for the Pirate King!
KING:
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King.
ALL:
It is!
Hurrah for the Pirate King!
Hurrah for the Pirate King!
CmdrTaco touched my penis :(
Who needs meta-data? I was planning on having it select a random track and waiting until it got to the right song...
Dear Mr King of the Pirates,
We happen to own a lot of songs that are not in your collection. We would love to send a couple of people over to provide you with the songs that you are missing. Can you please send us your home address and what you look like? We'll be right over.
Sincerely,
The Recording Industry Association of America
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terrabytes ... gigabyte
You misspelled "giggabyte".
Too late. I already ordered 5 copies.
He's got the best reasoning ever. How could any patriotic American jury convict this man of a crime if he's doing it to keep the terrorists from destroying the American culture and economy?! He's a good patriot! The RIAA has plugged away at their lawsuits through bad publicity like "RIAA sues grandmother and 12 yr old girl" but would they be so stupid as to sue this guy and invite headlines like "Recording Industry helps terrorists destroy American culture"?
do not read this line twice.
Clearly, that should have been "typ0graphical error".
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
Ahem. He has THREE broadband connections. That's $130,005,976 not $130,005,858. Don't spread your fuzzy math around here!
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'.
You misspelled "giggabyte"
Thank you for the correction, Mr. Quayle
This guy is WAY behind. About two and a half years ago I used to have access to a "box" belonging to a guy in Korea ... he was pulling in an avarage of 150 albums a day and had been doing so for a while. He already had close to 700.000 songs at that time ...
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." A. Huxley
I hate to break it to the terrorists, but they're waaaay too late.
~Idarubicin
It's really pretty simple; here's a code fragment:
No need to thank me, I'm just trying to do a service for the future generations and save this guy the headache of all those lawsuits...Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.
There is a horrible song by Styx called "Too Much Time On My Hands"
I wonder if he has that?
Ya gotta have goals. I suppose this guy aspires to be either the owner of the world's largest music collection or the first man publicly and savagely raped by the RIAA legal team.
Either way, he can still spell his namd "L-o-s-e-r"
ATTN: King of Music:
Dude...all day downloading music? Isn't there something better to do with all that time?
Let's do a quick calculation---900,000 songs. 3.5 minutes each on average. 3.15 million minutes of music. That's 52,500 hours or almost 6 years.
You could get 3 masters degrees; become a doctor or lawyer; travel around the world; or even troll every slashdot post. But you choose to sit at your computer doing nothing but downloading music?
You're sick, man. Can I browse your collection?
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
I tried to RTFA, am still trying actually. I keep refreshing the page but it keeps telling me it timed out. It's strange. Almost as if everyone from Slashdot who was viewing the article lagged the hosting server so much that it is unable to respond to requests.
Has anyone ever heard of that before?
This is an interesting thought that they want a copy of everything available but there are a few flaws to that idea.
First the most obvious is quality. Let's suppose that Diana Krall's greatest hits and I can only find it at 96Kbps. That's gonna suck. From a quality standpoint the question would be why? They'd have to spend money to remaster it etc.
Secondly is that not everyone with a collection is online all the time or sharing at all of the times. Would the RIAA appeal to the FCC to "intervere" with our PCs and simulataneously access the web?
As for the business method patent that might be a good idea. I don't know why Linus would though... Can the internet surpass something like FlashCopy? It seems that the web would come to a screaming halt if I tried to back up 18 terabytes of a data to the web.
Oh shit, I just blew up the internet.
UID 1000000 is just around the corner.
Typical, 900,0000 songs, thousands in computer hardware and speakers with 2" drivers.
Happened a lot with early lunar probes, especially the Soviet ones -- for varying reasons they'd miss the firing that was supposed to drop them into lunar orbit, or on a collision course ... and off they went into the wild black yonder, eventually winding up in solar orbit. Being as the Sun is a star, they got exactly what you said they did!
i am a soviet space shuttle