Given that music is often encoded at bit rates around 128kbps, that
should let you do some estimates.
Note that folks can also stream from the Internet, too, so even if
you have an environment where people are not serving locally, there
still is the question of external streams.
Curiously, I find .mp3s to be quite the hotbutton issue for some
users. Here are some paraphrased sample conversations we've seen:
IT staff: "User, it's not really quite right to have all these gigs
of music on your hard drive... and do you own the CDs anyway?"
User: "I don't have an iPod like some people, so I *have* to rip
these CDs I got from the public library onto my work computer."
IT staff: "!?!"
IT staff: "User, this collection of music you have on your computer,
it really doesn't look appropriate. It really needs to go away ASAP."
User: "But this is MY MUSIC. Just give me one day. Give me a day.
You CANNOT take MY MUSIC away. I will copy it off. Just leave now.
Don't delete it, I swear..."
IT staff: "!?!" (backing away slowly)
We try to use these moments as user education opportunities, but
those music collections really have set off some very animated
responses from users. Odd. In some cases they haven't understood
the whole IP/infringement implications, so they have ultimately been
appreciative. In other cases... sigh.
-Greg
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