"J. Christian Guerrero" <lacanian@mindspring.com> wrote:
quoted 3 lines ...at which point I try to explain succinctly to the caller (Masked> ...at which point I try to explain succinctly to the caller (Masked
> Musician? Andy Maddocks of Skam?) that the CDR trade he's referring to
> is not being done for profit by any *stretch* of the imagination.
Umm, you're selling 2CDR sets of MASKs 1-4 for $10. At domestic postage
rates & present blank CDR prices, that's a profit of at least $2 a CD,
which is a dream for most musicians. Most are lucky to get $1 for each
sale. Geez, $10 a set & you're trying to say that there is no personal
profit there, & after advertising on the list like ten times trying to get
people to buy these, constantly sending updates & commenting on how such
innumerable quantities of people there were who were going to buy these, I
really can't believe you're so appalled that someone suggested you were
ripping them off. I'm posting this response to the list in hopes that
other people won't participate in, & then try to defend, such blatant
theft & profiting of pirated music on this list.
quoted 9 lines But I ask you, you who phoned me: Do you think William S. Burroughs> But I ask you, you who phoned me: Do you think William S. Burroughs
> objected to pirate printings of 'Naked Lunch' or that Vladimir Nabokov
> did the same with reference to 'Lolita' when they were banned for
> commercial sale in the United States? Short answer: NO. The fact that
> there were bootleg copies of each book floating around when commercial
> availability wasn't possible indicated something important: that these
> writers were masters of their craft who demanded to be heard. The
> cultivation of an artistic reputation is worth more than money -- even
> someone as preciously dim as Andy Warhol knew that.
Clearly a bad analogy as those were government BANNED works, not LIMITED
by the manufacturers.
Marc Poirier