Re: The future of trading

["whizbang" <ozziescum@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Anyone who's been to the SHN server lately has seen the number of shows
> there grow en masse since the upgrade, and I bet it'll reach the goal of
> having every Zep show on there someday.

not a chance.  the mp3 project spans 36 discs, and a conservative
calculation puts that at about 21 GB.  now, if you figure that a single SHN
is roughly the size of an entire show in mp3 format, you see that space-wise
this simply unlikely to happen anytime soon.

But that gets me to wondering, what
> is the future of trading if things like the SHN server exist? I know
> everyone doesn't have high speed access, but eventually it'll be around
> more. It's like, why go through the trouble of trading with someone if I
can
> get on the SHN server and download it for free. I guess the only situation

not until bandwidth speeds increase even more.  it still takes time to DL a
show, even on 1.5 DSL.

> would be if something better came around and I couldn't wait =) But
> eventually there'll be more free servers, right? Ack, maybe I'm thinking
too
> much!

there are several more that i can think, including a tiny one i run off my
home machine.

> PS If you're on the SHN server with nothing better to do, check out the
> Pittsburgh 73 show. I didn't know it was THAT smokin =)

cool.

- -whizzy