From Tom Tonger Sent Mon, Jan 11th 1999, 23:54
let's make this more efficient. while i am strongly looking forward to a vigorous copyright discussion (since copyright issues are a matter of opinion rather than lame legal facts, after all), I thought I'd include in the same thread some other questions I've had for a long time: - how many cds does everyone have, and how do you categorize them? - and what do you think, is vinyl better or cds? - does the toothpaste cd-repair trick really work? - and how do you flatten warped records? - why are there so few girls on the list? - is the bleepbloop server up currently? - can someone give me the tracklisting for SAWII please? - quite generally, why do record labels release limited editions at all? - is the bleepbloop server down currently? - doesn't it suck that the majors start cashing in on our music? - btw, why is IDM called intelligent dance music? - can someone suggest some good mailorder places? - how do you pronounce autechre? ok, so much for the questions, here's my 0.02 Euro to the debate: I was told by a friend who knows someone that works in a law firm that in most countries you can probably burn CDRs and trade them as long as you think it's not for profit and as long as the copyright owner doesn't mind or thinks he doesn't mind or doesn't want to make profits or simply is a socialist and as long as you don't write copyright tom t 1999 on your burnt cdr because that's a clear copyright infringement i know that for a fact and these are probably illegal though i don't know why but I'm not a legal expert but anyways let me give you an illustrative example see if the aphex twin rolled over the skam pressing plant with his tank i mean boy would that ever suck and he couldnt just go like hey dudes i didnt see a sign that said dont roll over our pressing plant with your tank could he i mean could he see what i mean ok so back to the facts whats for sure is that as long as the cdr thinks it's blank and as long as you invest your profits in tanks you can't get busted becauzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzz z zzz z zz z