From Kiya Babzani Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 02:01
From Kiya Babzani Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 02:01
> From: Marc 3 Poirier <xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx.xxx.xxx> > Wait a minute, this seems a bit messed up to me. Some people set up a > wonderful web page of only really tricky or impossible to get Autechre > MP3s & get scolded by Warp after less than a week but the Aphex Twin MP3 > Archive has had stuff like "Come To Daddy," "....I Care Because You Do," > "Selected Ambient Works II," "Richard D. James Album," & so forth MP3ed > in their entireties, stuff that can actually hurt Warp's business, for > months without getting hassled at all. That just seems strange to me. > Well, I'm not saying that the Aphex page should go down now too (although > I would like it better if they lost the in-print albums & EPs), I guess > I'm just annoyed because I only got one Gescom song from the page. > > Marc Poirier > yeah, i think that's what bothers me the most. it's the fact that there are many (more than just two or three) sites that i've come accross that have mp3s, wav files, real audio (stream AND download), of aphex tracks, mask2 tracks, vibert tracks, and even autechre tracks, remixes and b-sides for fucks sake. so why did warp target bil and i? beats the shit out of me. sorry if i sound upset, it's just that after thinking about it after a while, the whole things seams just so idiotic. and legal action? legal action for what? 95% of the tracks were liscenced, copyrighted, AND written by and for records labels other than warp. maybe im confused, either way, this whole mp3 thing has ended in a way that has left a very bitter concept of warp in my mind. the last thing i hope warp are thinking, is that people wanting to go buy tri repetae are instead going to search the internet for mp3s of REMIXES, download a albums worth of tracks (about 9 or 10 tracks in this case), and play them only on their own computer as a mp3 file. lame. and yes i know you can convert them to .wavs and burn a cd, but c'mon, how many people have the equipement/resources to do that, or are so cheap that they'd go through all that touble so that they wouldn't have to shell out the 14.99 price of tri repatae (2 discs!) on cd. 2 discs in america that is. warp, you suck. that's not saying i won't go buy new warp stuff, im just saying, you suck. -kiya i am a copier. we are not all copiers.