There are many forms of music sharing. Sharing music on the internet is called piracy, and is punishable by law. People borrow someone's CD or DVD and listen to music. I suppose that is not piracy, because one is not making illegal copies of anything. It is somewhat like borrowing a book from a library, and returning it after one has read it, or finds it awful and does not want to read it further. Public sharing of music is what happens in festivals. The organizers put music on loud speakers so that the entire population of that area is forced to hear it. It may be called forced sharing of music. Today we are going to see yet another form of music sharing.
I was commuting on a city bus on my way to the hospital. Two young girls were sitting on the seat just in front of me. I noticed something unusual about them. They seemed to be connected by thin wires between their heads. After a while I realized they had thin white wires coming out of their adjacent ears. The two wires joined with each other, and a single wire passed downwards somewhere, probably to a hand of one of them. They were speaking to each other periodically, and then going back into forward gazing stance. After a while a realized that they had earphones in their adjacent ears (meaning right ear of the girl on the left, and left ear of the girl on the right). Then it dawned on me that they were listening to the same music emanating from a single phone or iPod. Since their other ears were open, they could hear each other too, when they decided to talk. What a wonderful bond of friendship, and what a wonderful method of sharing music. It was perfectly legal too.
What is shown above is my artwork showing this phenomenon. I have shown them sitting on a bed rather than on a seat of a city bus, because in case of the latter I would have to draw the complex interior of a bus and a lot of people in it. This was easier, and quite adequate for giving the idea to the reader.
I was commuting on a city bus on my way to the hospital. Two young girls were sitting on the seat just in front of me. I noticed something unusual about them. They seemed to be connected by thin wires between their heads. After a while I realized they had thin white wires coming out of their adjacent ears. The two wires joined with each other, and a single wire passed downwards somewhere, probably to a hand of one of them. They were speaking to each other periodically, and then going back into forward gazing stance. After a while a realized that they had earphones in their adjacent ears (meaning right ear of the girl on the left, and left ear of the girl on the right). Then it dawned on me that they were listening to the same music emanating from a single phone or iPod. Since their other ears were open, they could hear each other too, when they decided to talk. What a wonderful bond of friendship, and what a wonderful method of sharing music. It was perfectly legal too.
What is shown above is my artwork showing this phenomenon. I have shown them sitting on a bed rather than on a seat of a city bus, because in case of the latter I would have to draw the complex interior of a bus and a lot of people in it. This was easier, and quite adequate for giving the idea to the reader.
