These are my thoughts about bootlegs:
If you bootleg a record while the original is still in print and is easy to
find, you do it just to earn money and the music makers will suffer
economically from it. Therefore it should be illegal.
But if you make a bootleg with back-catalogue and limited edition stuff not
in print anymore, the producers of the records will not be hurt in any way
and in that case I think it is OK, even if the bootleggers profit from it.
I think limited edition records are a very unfair thing. Most of them are
only available in England and large cities and I can see no reason why
people living there should get them and not everyone else who wants them.
Once an artist or group has released a record, everyone should have access
to it. I would gladly break some stupid laws to make this possible.
INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE!
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quoted 9 lines Please let's forget about a seperate list for Aphex etc.>>Please let's forget about a seperate list for Aphex etc.
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>>It could be seen as a tad elitist and I wouldn't have such a big bunch of
>>people to have spicey arguments with.
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>The truth is that everyone would be one both lists just not to miss anything
>that might
>perhaps be important to a trainspotter (and what isn't eh?)
Three lists, including the ambient list, there's a lot of Aphex chat there..