see how things go. I'll definitely be checking it out. Pirates, Sharers, Traders and Hoarders I think the word hoarding says more about the motives of the users, and the way toward ending the practice, than anything else. Thanks in part to the industry's rhetoric, and in part to its actions, many lovers of music and other files are afraid they will lose access to the culture they crave. Thus they demand to have physical copies of its artifacts, and grab all they can. It's classic hoarding behavior. But time is the limit here, not space. You can only listen to one song at a time, watch one movie at a time. It doesn't matter how big your collection is, the only way to get enjoyment out of it is to play the files. If this is indeed an emerging copynorm , it may provide some clues as to potential future business models. Lack of Convenience Leads to the Dark Side DocBug recounts an episode of trying to find authorized Star Wars content and pay for it but failing and settling instead for unauthorized content that wasn't paid for ( What Happens When Content Providers Make "Legal" Hard to Do... ). I'm not justifying this behavior, but it is to be expected. The original Napster became popular at least in part because it provided something that wasn't readily available from an authorized source. May 22, 2005 In prior versions of BitTorrent, publishing was a 3 step process. You would: Create