From Blag Jesus Sex Machine Sent Tue, May 19th 1998, 23:10
From Blag Jesus Sex Machine Sent Tue, May 19th 1998, 23:10
On Tue, 19 May 1998, siliconvortex wrote: > > choice between downloading an mp3 file and going to the record store and > > BUYING the real thing, I'm sure that all of the nearly 900 visitors to > > that page would gladly spend the money on the real thing... > > pure nonsense! you're beginning to sound like a conscientious software > pirate! not everyone, even in this secular little scene, is a rabid record <blah blah blah> > freely available copies of music with the quality of mp3 (and please, no > fucking boring arguments about how 'bad' mp3 sounds) will take away a > certain amount of revenue from the record company that owns the recordings. You seem to have overlooked the fact that NONE of the songs on the page are available for purchase. So what "revenue" are they being denied? THEY >ALREADY< MADE THEIR MONEY OFF OF THIS STUFF. Was I charging for access to the files? No. I didn't put up any of the commercially available material, I had a link to warp-net, I did it out of respect for autechre's music, which I felt should be heard. Apparently the Sean and Rob feel differently about it, and so does their label, so I deleted everything. I didn't deny anyone of any revenue, and I certainly wasn't profiting from it. I kept the site pretty low key, the only public announcement of the site was to this list, and I made efforts to keep it from appearing in search engines... the site was intended for the FAN, and only the FAN. If you want to talk about denying revenue, look at the prices some of these records go for after they've been out of print for a while. What's the lesser evil here, Mr. Vortex? Anyway, I'm not saying anything else about this, I don't want to piss off warp any more than I already have, I don't want to piss off autechre more than I already have, BUT I refuse to be crucified for doing what I thought was a cool thing for the fans of autechre who couldn't get thier own copies of these releases. This horse is dead. .Bil. IAMaCOPIER