Re: where's the money?

[Jeff Shirkey <jcshirke@midway.uchicago.edu>]

On Jan 11, 2006, at 1:03 AM, 3nki wrote:

> only obsessive dead-head type collectors... i imagine most people  
> trade in whatever the cheapest easiest format available is, even if  
> it kinda sucks, like tapes or mp3.

You might be surprised how widespread the "tape" (anachronistic now,  
I guess) trading community is now. Dimeadozen.org, for example, has  
its membership capped at 100,000. Dime and other bit torrent sites  
trade exclusively in lossless formats, and it's not just for Dead- 
heads. Thousands of artists are represented. Whether all of it is  
obsessive or not, I can't really say.

Jeff