From Kiya Babzani Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 17:18
this guy's a fuckin' dick, if lived any place in the area, i would just... no. -kiya i am a copier. we are not all copiers. ---------- > From: Blag Jesus Sex Machine <xxxx@xxxxx.xxx> > To: xxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xxx > Subject: life the universe and everything (fwd) > Date: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 4:24 AM > > this guy is a fuckin dick. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 10:17:33 GMT > From: "g." <xxxx@xxxx-xxx.xxx> > To: Baby Diddy <xxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx>, James <xxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xxx>, > Irene McC <xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx>, xxxx@xxxxx.xxx > Subject: life the universe and everything > > > all of you have mailed me about our objection and the subsequent > removal of Autechre MP3s from xxxx@xxxxx.xxx's website. as an autechre > fan i appreciate your dismay. wouldn't it be nice to have every > autechre track for free. "is that cool?" hey lets break into their > studio and nick all their unreleased stuff and put it up on the > internet "is _that_ cool?" hey let's force them at gunpoint to write > tracks especially for me, me, me. "is THAT cool?, is it, IS IT? is > that cool?" > > so to be frank there is no real scope for debate on this one, however > seeing as the nice polite 'sue me' web site gentleman was kind enough > to publicly post private emails onto public mailing lists... > > this guy was ripping off records owned by us and putting them up for > distribution - the fact he wasn't charging is irrelevant the fact that > these tracks were 'rare' is irrelevant. > > 'people' seem to think that everyone has a god given right to listen > to every piece of music ever written. > > when a band writes a track for a charity compilation and gives the > track free of charge so the charity can raise funds with it you can > see how they might be annoyed when someone starts freely distributing > that track. > > bands can release tracks however they see fit. it is _their_ art. > > autechre, boards of canada and aphex etc write more tracks than you or > i will _ever_ hear, don't lose sleep over it. > > bands make no commercial gain by limiting releases, quite the > opposite, they do it so some fans somewhere can have a special release > that gives them a warm glow. this fan may not have mask1 but they have > basscadet box set. swings and roundabouts dudz. the brave new > copyright free world be be a very uniformly grey place if everyone had > everything. [tangent alert] > > however to a large degree this is very very off topic. > > whilst this site may not have had whole commercial albums, others do. > *there cannot be one rule for one and one rule for others*. if you are > distributing copyright material you are infringing copyright. this > means the artist is not being paid. if the artist is not paid the > artist cannot survive making music. artist doesn't make music. > > please forward this to idm someone. this is my last word on the > matter, time constraints etc. > > > ::greg > ::www.warprecords.com >