Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Feb 4, 2007, at 6:51 PM, shirling & neueweise wrote:
if there is a link beside the mp3 link to buy the album (for example),
then 128 (or even lower) as only an example of the artist's work may
be fine, and, who knows, may even discourage some from making the
extra effort to rip because of the mp3's poor sound quality.
This brings up another point. Andrii Didorenko is a world-class
virtuoso, and the MP3 of his piano trio is absolutely of commercial
quality, though he himself thinks it's "not very good." He knows I'm
going to put it up on my site, but I don't think he's thought of the
possibility that people might rip it off from there. How realistic a
worry is that, given that he's *not* commercially recorded--yet?
Where there's a media file of some sort, there's always a pretty good
chance that someone will be doing a web search for "mp3 file +piano" and
will find it and download it. And once that's happened there's also a
good chance that person will want to share this new-found genius of the
piano with others of similar tastes and post it somewhere for others to
find.
The only way to guarantee that something won't be ripped off is to not
put it on line. Period.
--
David H. Bailey
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