Downloaditis
So, you finally got your broadband connection. You’re king of the world, master of the universe, the almighty. Suddenly you get the access to the marvellous world of piracy: movies, CD’s, TV Shows, books, audio books, software, games, etc. In no time you have all the peer-to-peer clients running on your computer. It’s been just a few weeks, perhaps just a few days, and now you’re running out of space in your hard drive. It’s time to buy blank media to burn the overwhelming amount of stuff that’s been downloaded.
It has taken a bit of time to burn all those discs, but the hard drive is clean again, ready for a new batch of ones and zeroes. It wasn’t so long since you bought the 100-pack of blank CD’s, but suddenly you notice that there’s only a few left. The rest is backing up the loads of previously downloaded stuff. Now you have the DVD rips of your favourite movies, all the seasons from your favourite shows from the telly, concerts, full discographies, enormous software packs… But when are you going to have the time to actually enjoy all those goodies? Maybe some of the discs will remain shelved and forgotten, even a few copies of the very same disc downloaded in different occasions.
Is that you by any chance? If not, it’s almost certain that you know someone like that; who always tells you about their most recent downloads anytime you ask “what’s up?”
- Check this! I downloaded the whole (insert name of artist) discography, 5 GB!
- Wicked! Have you listened to any of it?
- Well, no. I don’t have the time. Right now I’m downloading all the “Seinfeld” episodes and the whole Rolling Stones discography.
- What about the movies you downloaded last month?
- I haven’t had the time to check them either. By the way, did I tell you that I’m getting a faster connection?
It’s just a case of “downloaditis”, the sudden urge to download as much as possible as fast as possible, without ever sitting down and actually enjoying the pirated goods. In most cases these people would be better off without the computer and the high speed connection, although they might continue with the exact same behaviour pattern, just focused to something else, like building a huge library without ever sitting down to read anything.
It has taken a bit of time to burn all those discs, but the hard drive is clean again, ready for a new batch of ones and zeroes. It wasn’t so long since you bought the 100-pack of blank CD’s, but suddenly you notice that there’s only a few left. The rest is backing up the loads of previously downloaded stuff. Now you have the DVD rips of your favourite movies, all the seasons from your favourite shows from the telly, concerts, full discographies, enormous software packs… But when are you going to have the time to actually enjoy all those goodies? Maybe some of the discs will remain shelved and forgotten, even a few copies of the very same disc downloaded in different occasions.
Is that you by any chance? If not, it’s almost certain that you know someone like that; who always tells you about their most recent downloads anytime you ask “what’s up?”
- Check this! I downloaded the whole (insert name of artist) discography, 5 GB!
- Wicked! Have you listened to any of it?
- Well, no. I don’t have the time. Right now I’m downloading all the “Seinfeld” episodes and the whole Rolling Stones discography.
- What about the movies you downloaded last month?
- I haven’t had the time to check them either. By the way, did I tell you that I’m getting a faster connection?
It’s just a case of “downloaditis”, the sudden urge to download as much as possible as fast as possible, without ever sitting down and actually enjoying the pirated goods. In most cases these people would be better off without the computer and the high speed connection, although they might continue with the exact same behaviour pattern, just focused to something else, like building a huge library without ever sitting down to read anything.
posted by J.S. at 9:31 em
1 Comments:
Interesting, indeed.
I'm afraid I might be suffering some kind of "downloaditis"...hehe
For example I heard some Bill Hicks' jokes, but not the whole "Dangerous"... :$ shame on me! haha
Does "downloaditis" have a cure? Can you tell us doctor?
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