The technical name is syllogomania, from sylloge (”to collect”), but most psychiatric professionals call it compulsive hoarding.
Like everyone else, compulsive hoarders have gone digital. Infohoarding may be the first psychiatric dysfunction born of digital age.
“Jim” is an infohoarder like few others. In the last four years, this 37-year-old Brooklyn native has downloaded and burned every piece of broadcast and print media that’s been digitized. Or so it seems. His apartment is filled with DVDs and CDs packed with bootleg anime, comic books, books, e-books, television programs, movies and, of course, music. He’s a completionist who must have every episode, every issue, every track.
Using Jim’s stacks and drives — which contain 2,500 GB of data — aliens could recreate a low-res version of human civilization from 1990 to the present day.
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i wonder if jim was sued by all those copyright holders how much would he owe would it be more than allofmp3.com just wondering?
Silly go mania. I had a buddy who was like that recording everything on a stack of DVRs and they were always full. He used to have a wall made out of VHS cassettes and a pillar too and sometimes they would come tumbling down. He could not use Vonage as a telephone because torrents were flowing through the net connection at full speed day and night.
The impact? Well his house was jammed with media and the devices to acquire it but collecting gave him something to do and I don’t think it seriously affected his social life because most of it was done automatically. Still when you want to invite folks over and you can’t because you’re embarrassed because you have too much stuff sitting around then that’s not so good.
I collect too much also but I’m working woof on it..