From Marc 3 Poirier Sent Tue, Jan 12th 1999, 18:58
From Marc 3 Poirier Sent Tue, Jan 12th 1999, 18:58
"J. Christian Guerrero" <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > ...at which point I try to explain succinctly to the caller (Masked > Musician? Andy Maddocks of Skam?) that the CDR trade he's referring to > is not being done for profit by any *stretch* of the imagination. Umm, you're selling 2CDR sets of MASKs 1-4 for $10. At domestic postage rates & present blank CDR prices, that's a profit of at least $2 a CD, which is a dream for most musicians. Most are lucky to get $1 for each sale. Geez, $10 a set & you're trying to say that there is no personal profit there, & after advertising on the list like ten times trying to get people to buy these, constantly sending updates & commenting on how such innumerable quantities of people there were who were going to buy these, I really can't believe you're so appalled that someone suggested you were ripping them off. I'm posting this response to the list in hopes that other people won't participate in, & then try to defend, such blatant theft & profiting of pirated music on this list. > But I ask you, you who phoned me: Do you think William S. Burroughs > objected to pirate printings of 'Naked Lunch' or that Vladimir Nabokov > did the same with reference to 'Lolita' when they were banned for > commercial sale in the United States? Short answer: NO. The fact that > there were bootleg copies of each book floating around when commercial > availability wasn't possible indicated something important: that these > writers were masters of their craft who demanded to be heard. The > cultivation of an artistic reputation is worth more than money -- even > someone as preciously dim as Andy Warhol knew that. Clearly a bad analogy as those were government BANNED works, not LIMITED by the manufacturers. Marc Poirier