At 10:05 AM 10/31/97 -0700, you wrote:
quoted 6 lines We weren't bitching about what you're doing, just trying to inform you what>We weren't bitching about what you're doing, just trying to inform you what
>can and will happen if you don't go through the proper procedures for what
>your doing. Second point: If you are re-producing music that is STILL in
>print you are cheating the artists and all those involved out of their due
>royalties. I (being a musician myself) get throughly pissed at you people
>for saturating the market with your bootlegs. Since electronic based
Yet, the amount of money lost on bootlegs is uncountable. Nobody knows how
much is made. I believe that the record industry has made artificially
outrageous values on what they perceive as losses for bootleg recordings.
Tell me how much you have lost on bootlegs (being a musician)? I think it
is all perpetuated by some corporate people to scare people from making
bootlegs. What have they lost? Do bootlegs really compete with actual
recordings?
quoted 2 lines musicians are not exactly selling millions of copies (except for a few>musicians are not exactly selling millions of copies (except for a few
>artists) of their work, every penny counts. This is their living. They
Sure, give me their address and I'll personally send them money.
quoted 4 lines don't make a hell of a lot off of the sales of their work unless they own>don't make a hell of a lot off of the sales of their work unless they own
>their own label or distribute it themselves. Labels tend to take the larger
>percentage of the profit from the sales. The bottom line is you're
>stealing something that you have no right to. This problem is only going to
Agreed. Artists do get ripped off by their record companies, much more than
those "Evil" people who bootleg live and out-of-print recordings.
quoted 3 lines get bigger and bigger as the technology permits this type of theft. For all>get bigger and bigger as the technology permits this type of theft. For all
>of you who are planning to make a career out of selling your music to the
>general public think again.
Don't diss technology. True, one day (it's already happening) everyone and
their grandma will be able to make exact copies of their favorite toons,
bleeps, and noises. I don't think that anything will hinder this becoming
a reality, even copyrights.
quoted 1 line BTW, we don't sell Audio Tape.>BTW, we don't sell Audio Tape.
Not a profitable business, eh?
Rusty