(idm) Fw: life the universe and everything (fwd)

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.         
                   

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> 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
>