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2003-03-12 23:03urbI don't really want to take part in this "Indie Ethics" thread, but maybe some of you will

From:: urb <hansjorg-idm@orakel.ntnu.no>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:03:13 +0100
Subject:: [idm] Another take on downloading

I don't really want to take part in this "Indie Ethics" thread, but maybe some of you will find this mail I got today interesting. Tellé is a smallish, but quite famous, "indie" label here in Norway. They release mostly house (but quite idm'ish at that). --snip-- Yesterday (11.03) we here at Tellé got thrown in to the discussion about free downloading of music from the internet. It was a reporter from the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (More like the Norwegian Financial Times) who asked us what we thought about the fact that last year the Norwegian people downloaded music for 7 billion Norwegian Kroner? And they were wondering how this affects us? The Norwegian major labels don't like the fact that people get their music for free, it is the same with major labels all over the world, I guess. They think that they will make less money. I heard that the Norwegian CD sales were growing with more than 10 % last year. So if they loose money I guess it is the independent labels that are growing! Why? I thought. Maybe it is the fact that we don't use most of our time and money to chase down these sites were you can download music, we focus more on the good music and less on the possible sale of the record. We are always in an attacking position. We constantly want new people to hear our music. Anyway, we here at the Tellé office download a lot of music every day, we respect the artists that we download, and if the music is good, we probably buy the Vinyl (or maybe the cd) anyway. We thought that we should show our gratitude to our downloading friends, to our music scene. So that is why we now publish 4 albums and 1 single release from Telle Records as free downloads, we even put out an easy-to-print artwork. It is now possible to download Bjorn Torske's album Trobbel, Kaptein Kaliber's 3 albums Pop Ultra 1, Pop Ultra 2 and Pop Ultra 2b (previously unreleased!), as well as the 7" I will always remember you by Fredrik Saroea (feat. Annie), from www.tellerecords.com So, on the behalf of Tellé and the featured artists, we hope you enjoy. Take care --snip-- -- regards, urb --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

2003-03-13 06:21Josh Steinerawsome... there is some good stuff there too :) urb wrote: >I don't really want to take pa

From:: Josh Steiner <joschi@eds.org>
To:: <hansjorg@orakel.ntnu.no>
Cc:: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:21:52 -0800
Subject:: Re: [idm] Another take on downloading
Reply to:: [idm] Another take on downloading

awsome... there is some good stuff there too :) urb wrote:

quoted 54 lines I don't really want to take part in this "Indie Ethics" thread, but

>I don't really want to take part in this "Indie Ethics" thread, but >maybe some of you will find this mail I got today interesting. Tellé >is a smallish, but quite famous, "indie" label here in Norway. They >release mostly house (but quite idm'ish at that). > >--snip-- > >Yesterday (11.03) we here at Tellé got thrown in to the discussion >about free downloading of music from the internet. It was a reporter >from the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (More like the Norwegian >Financial Times) who asked us what we thought about the fact that last >year the Norwegian people downloaded music for 7 billion Norwegian >Kroner? And they were wondering how this affects us? > >The Norwegian major labels don't like the fact that people get their >music for free, it is the same with major labels all over the world, I >guess. They think that they will make less money. I heard that the >Norwegian CD sales were growing with more than 10 % last year. So if >they loose money I guess it is the independent labels that are growing! > >Why? I thought. Maybe it is the fact that we don't use most of our time >and money to chase down these sites were you can download music, we >focus more on the good music and less on the possible sale of the >record. We are always in an attacking position. We constantly want new >people to hear our music. > >Anyway, we here at the Tellé office download a lot of music every day, >we respect the artists that we download, and if the music is good, we >probably buy the Vinyl (or maybe the cd) anyway. We thought that we >should show our gratitude to our downloading friends, to our music >scene. So that is why we now publish 4 albums and 1 single release from >Telle Records as free downloads, we even put out an easy-to-print >artwork. > >It is now possible to download Bjorn Torske's album Trobbel, Kaptein >Kaliber's 3 albums Pop Ultra 1, Pop Ultra 2 and Pop Ultra 2b >(previously unreleased!), as well as the 7" I will always remember you >by Fredrik Saroea (feat. Annie), from www.tellerecords.com > >So, on the behalf of Tellé and the featured artists, we hope you enjoy. > >Take care > >--snip-- > >-- >regards, >urb > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >

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