Dubious claims
The ads on the right appeared in Gmail next to an email I just received.
19 billion is an awfully large number of songs for retailers called "MyMusicInc.com" and "AllCoolMusic.com" to have on hand.
Unbelievably large, actually.
According to the New York Times, even the comparatively inventory-free "My-Free-Music.com" seems (at 99 million songs) to offer about four times as much music as has ever been recorded by human beings:
From the days of Sumerian clay tablets till now, humans have "published" at least 32 million books, 750 million articles and essays, 25 million songs, 500 million images, 500,000 movies, 3 million videos, TV shows and short films and 100 billion public Web pages.
Assuming an average mp3 file size of about 3 megabytes, 19 billion songs would eat up 57 million gigabytes.
As one knowledgeable correspondent notes, "That would be one hell of a datacenter."
Addendum: Even iTunes only claims to have 3 million songs.
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