From Mark Kolmar Sent Wed, Oct 21st 1998, 01:35
From Mark Kolmar Sent Wed, Oct 21st 1998, 01:35
Rather than strangling someone at the RIAA, I wrote them this letter. They are not protecting my interests, and very likely none of yours either. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:26:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Kolmar <xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx> To: xxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx Subject: The Rio MP3 player Please forward to appropriate people. Gentlemen: Once again you display your digital paranoia and your fundamental misunderstanding of the role of home-taping in promoting awareness of music, especially music by new and lesser-known artists. The only important difference between analog and digital media with respect to home-taping is generation loss. I assure you that generation loss is not a very significant deterrent. (Note that you are up in arms about a device which plays music recorded with a -lossy-, perceptual encoding scheme.) I shudder to think about the ways in which you ostensibly try to protect my interests. First, your actions make it more difficult and expensive for me, and artists like me, to record our music in the first place. Second, you wish to deter people from promoting awareness of our music in highly effective ways. Third, your agenda funnels money away from lesser-known artists, and into the pockets of better-known arists and their lawyers. Finally, you appear to operate under the false assumption that an unauthorized copy represents a lost sale. The reality, as you should know, is much more complex. Sincerely, --Mark Kolmar =-=- __ Available now: SENSELESS CD on Mindfield Records MindCD03 Cathartium 14 < Distributed by Dutch East India Trading and Carrot Top Distribution > < http://www.xnet.com/~mkolmar/BurningRome > < MP3 & RealAudio tracks >