In a message dated 3/7/00 10:32:53 AM Eastern Standard Time,
gordon@populo.vip.fi writes:
<<
If I were an MP3 trader, most of these would be available from me. But I
respect the musicians and labels and _do NOT support piracy_,
because that's what dealing in MP3s is. I don't use Napster or anysuch,
I don't comb the net to get the impossible-to-find-on-real-media BoC
tracks. I'd rather be without them than submit to the false notion of
"fairness to pirate" when the records are not available anymore. I don't
think that "home taping is killing music" but it's still unethical and
just plain _criminal_. If it's worth listening (repeatedly), it's worth
buying. >>
Just want to chime in that I'm very sad that someone
who loves the same music I do seems to support alienating others from
getting the chance to hear it. Void is out of print. Likemind is
out of print. Evolution is out of print. A13 is out of print.
B12 is out of print. ART is out of print. Otherworld is out of print.
The artists aren't losing any money through MP3's or CDR's,
and nobody I think making them is gaining any cash from them.
It is simply allowing a new audience the chance to hear great
music. You're right about new stuff, or about bootlegging anything,
old or new, for profit. But for out of print stuff when people just
make copies out of love for the music and the desire to let
interested parties hear it, I have to disagree (and this is from me, a guy
who can't work an MP3 player and can't burn CDR's).
As a music enthusiast, I want to share my enthusiasm with others
and carry on the tradition of introducing people to great music in
the same way others helped introduce it to me. It seems to me
incredibly detrimental to this scene to be any other way.
Unfortunately in this age of copyright and hasty legislation the only
way great art becomes truly accessible is when the artist is dead.
Look at the compositions of Beethoven or the Sistine Chapel.
What if only people around at the time or those with the most money
could experience them? Man, I can't support that. Art should
be universal.
Matt
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