> It makes me think that eventually there will be illicit torrents of all the worlds music, plus the index, plus the metadata, and plus the interface/app for browsing it.
It seems to me that the a-grade private torrent trackers are exactly that. Larger catalogue, more comprehensive metadata, and better interface than any commercial service.
> In other words, people would not only pirate individual songs or movies, they would download their own complete copies of Spotify / Netflix. It isn't feasible now but it could be sometime in the next 5-15 years, depending bandwidth speeds.
If you have the infrastructure, and are really dedicated, you can definitely do it today.
I don't think you see what I'm saying. Imagine a single torrent called "music", 15 terabytes large. Opening the application inside brings up a local copy of Spotify.
>It seems to me that the a-grade private torrent trackers are exactly that. Larger catalogue, more comprehensive metadata, and better interface than any commercial service.
Regardless of metadata quality and collection size which I think is debatable although having not seen one... they are a la carte, so much different.
> If you have the infrastructure, and are really dedicated, you can definitely do it today.
No infrastructure is required, just multiple terabytes of storage (which most households do not have... yet), and bandwidth that makes downloading terabytes an attainable feat. Needless to say the later is not viable today either. But eventually both those things will become commonplace.
15 is a high number too. The set of music one would be possibly be interesting in hearing (of the set of all music which has already been produced) may be closer to 3-5 terabytes. Movies of course, are different larger set of numbers.
It seems to me that the a-grade private torrent trackers are exactly that. Larger catalogue, more comprehensive metadata, and better interface than any commercial service.
> In other words, people would not only pirate individual songs or movies, they would download their own complete copies of Spotify / Netflix. It isn't feasible now but it could be sometime in the next 5-15 years, depending bandwidth speeds.
If you have the infrastructure, and are really dedicated, you can definitely do it today.