a valid reason/etiquette would be if you own the work yourself or ask the
record company for permission to do so (we're not all such bad people).
Seriously though it's tricky for us. We don't want to appear as
unreasonable assholes but it's hard to tell from a label perpective who
is putting the stuff up because they like it and are trying to help
promote their fav tunes, or who is just being shady and opportunistic
about scamming our tracks. My feeling is that if you're trying to help
promote...don't put the whole track/record up for download. If you're
being opportunistic and just ripping off us and our artists...well then
fuck off, I'll come over to your house and steal something of yours. If
it's something that's out of print...ask the label. They just might say
yes, to try and create demand for a repressing or at least it might kick
the label in the ass to put it on their site for free. We got so many
requests for the Kid Koala 10" that we put it up for free for 2 weeks and
had over 4500 downloads...so it works.
Jeff
quoted 2 lines Of course I don't condone stealing but my gut tells me there are some valid>Of course I don't condone stealing but my gut tells me there are some valid
>reasons to copy something for someone else and make it available on the net.
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