40,000 Songs Per Child

I remember my music collection as a young teenager. It mainly consisted of CDs that I got from signing up to Columbia House or BMG’s CD delivery service. I had more CDs than most of my friends. I’d say my total collection was about 50 CDs. That’s roughly 600 songs. That wouldn’t even fill up a 10GB iPod.

Now you have people of all ages carrying around over 50 GB in their pocket. Apple’s 80 GB iPod stores 40,000 songs! Please remember this when the music industry gives you their sob story about how their losing business because of piracy. They brought it upon themselves for reaping the profits of this mass consumption of their product without listening to their consumers (Apple had to pull teeth to get them to charge $1 a song). They could have avoided their current losses if they actually provided the consumers what they wanted ten years ago when MP3s were becoming popular.

Note to TV and movie studios: Make your content as accessible as possible and sell advertising (like what you’re doing with Hulu). Don’t make the same mistake as the music industry and try to milk the consumer for as long as possible.