i know we might be thought off-topic a bit but Mark makes interesting
points that are relevant to IDM'rs who uses samples and/or anyone who
exchanges mixtapes,home burned CDR's etc.
quoted 5 lines The music industry has a greed of a different kind than any other industry>The music industry has a greed of a different kind than any other industry
>I can think of off the top of my head. Everything from killing DAT as a
>consumer format, to the buffalo-bagel SCMS, to the various proposals of
>"watermarked" audio for purposes of copy-protection (from the idea of a
>sharp "inaudible" notch filter to e_mod's Liquid Audio format).
if the music industry hadn't conspired to bury DAT as a consumer format we
would be able to buy machines for under £200 and portable DAT's for under
£100.the horrible short sightedness of it is that it did nothing to stem
the flow of piracy anyway.
and this whole idea of embedding watermarks in audio is horrible,although i
think that if you were to sample such a piece of that "protected" audio and
were then to treat it with effects and filters etc. the watermark would be
unrecoverable...until the industry finds a way to stop you doing that.
quoted 3 lines What these people don't realize is the last time I gave someone a mix tape,he>What these people don't realize is the last time I gave someone a mix tape,he
>promptly went out to buy about 4 CDs by bands he would not otherwise have
>>known.
that's it exactly.anyone with any sense who makes music doesn't mind that sort
of thing,or people taping gigs.most people would rather their music was heard
on a tape made by friends than not at all,and the people who buy live
bootlegs already have the "legitimate" releases anyway,so no sales are lost.
btw i thought that john cage quote summed it up nicely.where is it from?
-drew
np:mouse on mars-instrumentals(john balance played it to me yesterday and i
had to get it)