Very nifty db. If i had moderator points, i would be slightly tempted to mod you up rather than post. Slightly.

Favorite stat from 10 seconds of perusal:

Popularity of the name Trinity:

Year of birth Rank
2001 67
2000 74
1999 216
1998 555
1997 547
1996 687
1995 683
1994 821
1993 951

Curious, isn't it. Something seems to have caused a sudden jump in popularity in the middle of 1999!

While i really enjoyed the matrix, i can't say that it ever occured to me that it would cause a sudden spike in people naming their daughters trinity.

The difference between the two is your barrier to entry. Creating a large music collection via taping is MANY orders of magnitude more difficult than doing it with mp3 and Napster. You even mention it, assuming you had a million dollars...

In an ideal world both methods are wrong, but from a practical perspective (the perspective I believe Lars is coming from), cracking down on taping just isn't worth the hassle.