Re: free licensed music

[Sal Randolph]

Hi Alex,

Well for one thing, linking your files into opsound certainly doesn't
prevent you from having them on your own site or sharing them through
gnutella, soulseek, etc.  That's one of the nice things about copyleft
licensing.  And you personally may be involved in a wide enough community of
artists and have enough exposure etc that you don't really have a need for
something like Opsound.  The point is more to start up a playground for
those who do want to play, and to experiment with releasing actual records
and cds and to see what synergies can be created between free online
releases and for-sale (but freely copyable) physical releases.  And of
course to have some good parties.

Sal


On 3/31/03 7:21 AM, "alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Hi Sal,
> 
> As opsound.org doesn't appear to have any editorial control, or host the
> sound files, why should I choose to distribute my work via a link on
> your site, as apposed to my own site, or a file-sharing network such as
> soulseek or gnutella?  From here I can't see a need for such a
> centralised resource when the aim seems to be openness, limitlessness
> and decentralisation.
> 
> alex