Redistribution of wealth: part two
I have generally been trying to get everyone to read James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds. In particular, I have been suggesting people buy it on iTMS and download it onto their iPods.
I mentioned this to one colleague at work who I knew received a 40Gb iPod for Xmas.
She said almost with a hint of mourning in her voice: ‘Oh, my iPod…’
A tale of woe follows about the fact that her glorious shiny eight month old iPod only had eight albums on it: and she’d sort of got fed up of listening to them over and over again. Too difficult. Too busy with the kids. Too little time.
Now, I had already given her my iPod starter pack: 20 CD Roms with MP3s burnt onto them. And, I know I should have walked away. However, I found myself for a second time last night, plugging someone else’s iPod into my PC and handing over all my musical worldly goods. I like to think she will be wowed by my amazing ‘eclectic’ taste, but I suggest she’ll just be slightly miffed that I’ve only got three Oasis tracks on there.
By co-incidence, stumbled across this thread on I Love Music, from someone who has done something similar, but had a slightly more violent reaction than myself
- So I had 100 gbs of (fairly hard to find) music that I’ve slowly collected over the past four years at college. The other day a friend of mine asked to copy it to an external drive and I agreed. Now I feel sick to my stomach and I can’t seem to stop hating my friend. Is this simple greed?
- This is why socialism will never work.
- Next time you see them, I bet they tell you that they think you’ve got shit taste. In fact, now they probably hate you.
- since i transfered everything to a external hd, i’ve had several people copy all 200 gigs to their own drives. i never felt the slightest twinge of guilt — these people are friends, and we’ve always shared music. guy’s just a wee bit selfish, methinks.