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From:
Rusty Householter
To:
Guy Elden
Cc:
Date:
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:02:05 -0600
Subject:
Re: (idm) Re: (IDM) CD Burnings
Msg-Id:
<3.0.3.32.19971031150205.006f0f1c@mtco.com>
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<199710311912.OAA08612@fox.earthweb.com>
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At 02:12 PM 10/31/97 -0500, you wrote:
quoted 7 lines stealing something that you have no right to. This problem is only going to>> stealing something that you have no right to. This problem is only going to >> get bigger and bigger as the technology permits this type of theft. For all >> of you who are planning to make a career out of selling your music to the >> general public think again. > >I seriously doubt anybody on this list would choose to buy a bootleg over >the real thing.
Exactly. Corporations hate bootleggers because they think they are competing with their markets. But when it's an Out-of-print recording bootleg you've created your own market since theirs doesn't exist anymore and that really peeves them off.
quoted 6 lines Tell me, when was the last time you saw a copy of Joyrex J4, 5, or 9 in your>Tell me, when was the last time you saw a copy of Joyrex J4, 5, or 9 in your >local chain record store? >Or available through your local indie record store? >Or available through a mail-order store? >Or available through an auction? >Or available through a bootleg?
Never. Still (legally) waiting for it to get repressed onto CD. Rusty