I work on SETI@home, helped get it started, maintain all the servers, databases, web sites, write scientific analysis code, etc. I also helped work on that iPhone game Tap Tap Revenge. And I also regularly record and tour internationally with all kinds of rock bands. I work equally hard on both tech and music careers, I think the ratio of money in tech vs. music is roughly 99 to 1, give or take 1.

Anyway, I'm a musician who knows about technology.

Since it's in real time to tape record 11,000 songs that would take, at 3 minutes per song, roughly 3 weeks. I'm sure people wouldn't stay up doing this 24 hours a day, so let's say at 12 hours a day of sitting there copying 11,000 songs one at a time, inserting new cassettes, etc. would take about 2 months at least. Two really grueling months making you question the worth of what you were doing.

However to copy 11,000 mp3s from one computer to another, about 7 hours. Go to sleep, wake up, all done. And nobody got hurt, right?

It's all about the ease and the scale at this point radically affecting the bottom lines.

Um... I bought over 1000 CDs before the internet. That's roughly $15,000. Doesn't seem like that much to ask for all that entertainment.

My own two cents, but I've been living in Oakland for 20 years, and never had one urge to move to SF. Oakland has much better weather, amazing parks (10 minute drive from my house and I'm in a redwood forest), and now that it's mathematically impossible to start new clubs, bars, or restaurants in SF they are all moving here!

I get why people have skewed ideas about Oakland (the media, the closet and overt racism) but I tell them: It's a great place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit there.

This always drove me nuts. I'm glad somebody else made this montage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk