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Comment by Gonzih | Hacker News Reader

I'm not sure how this is relevant to HN.

It can be seen as a disruption of the current meme that music is a commodity that can be duplicated ad-infinitum.

It can also be seen as an amazing statement of how pompous and out-of-touch the music industry is, and how badly we need copyright reform.

I sure as hell wouldn't go through the effort of listening to that even if it's the most divine thing i will ever hear (seriously doubt that).

Music is meant to be heard if you want to turn it into a publicity stunt keep it it's probably not worth my time anyway.

Although it would be hilarious to have a kickstarter to buy the album and rip it into mp3's for the masses to listen to :)) given how much you will be paying for i argue you should be allowed to do whatever yo want with it.

Music has no fixed meaning.

Some would argue that it is meant to be experienced, not heard.

What some people call "the greatest piece of music ever written" was composed by a deaf man, indeed Beethoven even conducted its première, setting the tempo for an orchestra he couldn't even hear. But still he got 5 standing ovations.

Or that music is just a collection of bits? And with enough storage and computing power I could generate every song every recorded by humans?

There's nothing disruptive about it.

It's artificial scarcity, which has never worked well, or for long.

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> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Excellent wording. That's exactly what a Hacker is all about.

I agree, it's a good mission statement for the site, but it can get lost in the general HN haze of Silicon Valley and web startups.

I work in a very different part of the country on very different things than the majority of HN as far as I can tell, but I do enjoy reading the comments and articles posted here. It bums me out when people are down on things that don't fit within that SV sphere.

> I work in a very different part of the country on very different things than the majority of HN as far as I can tell, but I do enjoy reading the comments and articles posted here. It bums me out when people are down on things that don't fit within that SV sphere.

Agreed. Hacker News doesn't always mean Silicon Valley News.

the intersection of HN readers and Wu-Tang fans is surprisingly large.

Is it that surprising? Rap's hustling make it by any means mentality isn't so far from that of startup founders / ambitious people in general.

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