Data delivery systems have systematically grown in size and bandwidth as time marches on. The old 360K floppy was once enough room to deliver entire programs. Soon extincted by program size, the 1.4mb floppy came along and soon was out of the forefront, replaced by the data CD and later on the DVD data disk. Today one cannot buy a new computer with a floppy drive already built into the thing.

The use of a hard drive for software delivery therefor doesn't represent a paradigm change for the industry.

As usual, Peter and company are at the forefront of innovation in this regard.

I think that with the advent of more and more computer sales being based upon multimedia rather than the more "mundane" aspects of computing, that we will see delivery of softwares plus files that are "clip art" in nature for other multimedia softwares too, such as video production suites and the like.

The cost of USB hard drives in quantity is not that much as compared to the cost of producing the bits and bytes that are delivered. Matter of fact it may just be about equal to the older costs of jobbing out pro quality CD or DVD data install disks with silkscreening, jacket, etc. Might even be less money at this point, or close to the same.

The actual BIAB program is still relatively small in size and could fit on just about any delivery system considering multiple-disk installers for the smaller sized media.

It is not data in the sense of program data that takes up the room here. The RealTracks are media, just like the old Clip Art media, in the sense that they are usable by any legal owner in the public domain. If you consider how long the graphics crowd has had the Clip Art stuff, then having it in the music industry domain is not a paradigm shift either.


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