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Josh Steiner
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Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:21:52 -0800
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Re: [idm] Another take on downloading
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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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