Actually I think what The Chisa was referring to was more along the lines of corporations who wished MP3 was *completely* banned. Notice the introduction of copy protection measures in Windows XP coupled with the removal of high-quality MP3 encoding options.
If you cannot make MP3's in the first place (because new software and OS's don't allow it) then how can you, as an independent, get your work out there in this fashion?
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----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Piontek
To: Inconvenient Dark Matter
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 3:56 PM
Subject: RE: [idm] copy protection (crap)
> From: The Chisa [mailto:matt@holland.deathhouse.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 6:49 PM
>
> in general. Once this copy-protection shit is in full effect, how is an
> unsigned artist / home recorder supposed to get his material recognized
I'm confused - who's keeping anyone from listening to yer MP3s or a poor
indie label's "unprotected" CDs (& vinyl!)? Who's working against you?
Unless I'm greatly misinformed, it's not as if people will only be allowed
to purchase music from these certain channels - they can still go get your
MP3s if you want to let them download them, or go buy that old []pshr vinyl
if it's still fer sale.