to all of you boisterous email writers out there, a pre-note before i
write my response to this:
technical school has warped my fragile little mind: i am not as
articulate as i wish i could be. therefore if i ramble, blame RPI.
jackie 0 wrote:
> In essence, what you (Russ) are doing is assuming a position of
> intellectual property owenership over something which you are freely
> distributing, and which you are freely distributing in a way that breaks
im more or less saying that i made these mp3s off of a tape that i got
in the mail.
i found a guy with the space to let me put them on the web.
i let the fans know where they are. i claim no "ownership" of the stuff
contained in the file.
> the current intellectual property laws. You can't have it both ways, in
> other words. By making mp3s of commercially produced music and
> subsequently offering them for free, you are breaking copyright law and
> "stealing" intellectual property (a sound recording). You are then
ahh. this isnt commercially produced. well. besides the jap ep. and the
second someone in a higher power tells me to take that japanese EP down,
its goin down. so far no one has really done that. but none of this is
commericial. theres no full lengths, bonus tracks, 7"s available on my
site (unless a song from a 7" was available on the rare demos, in which
case if someone asked me to take it down i would)
> assuming intellectual property right yourself by claiming that someone
> has no right to do with the mp3s as they please - to use an imprecise
> metaphor, it's like yr stealing a few dozen CDs from the record label,
> handing them out to people, and then getting all huffy when one of them
> sells it at the pawn shop. If you believe that people who freely
> receieve what you give them do not have the ability to do with it as
> they wish, then you are a hypocrite, as you yrself are going against the
> wishes of the people you received the music from.
>
youre right, this guy can do what he wants with it. thats why im not
going to his house and formatting his hard drive. but i can at least try
my best to try and reason with him. ill say that it was prolly not a
good thing for me to suggest that we harass this guy because he wouldnt
comply with my wishes. in fact it was a cheap immature tactic on my
part. but this guy was kickin below the belt to boot. and as i
understand that i am not the puppet master, with the strings of every
downloader in the palms of my hands, i have decided to throw passwords
on the boots page. not like that wont stop the 3000 people who already
downloaded from the page from doing what they will with these files, but
it surprises me that such a small handful of the people who get ahold of
this stuff actually think to do something sinister like make a profit
for the highest price around.
> And ultimately, if someone wants to pay for a CD of rare mp3s, why is
> that so bad? Believe it or not, some of us don't have the time or the
its not so bad i guess if they wanna pay like. 5 bucks. but we all know
ebay bids get high enough that you could pay your child support with
every rare boot disc you sell. so when ONE person gets duped into buying
a cd for 65 bucks by some slimy bastard who took 38 minutes to burn it
from mp3s that were free to all, i dunno. i mean i know you understand
the point behind why thats bad. so should i get all righteous and be
like down with ebay? or should i say "let the suckers be duped"? at this
point i dunno how much i really care. its not a fun thing to try and
stop people from doing something you dont like when they have no intent
on listening to you. this guy made some analogy like "its like an
antique store that finds junk, brushes it up, and sells it for a high
price". and thats fine when youre talking about unreproducable media.
but when you can make 80 copies of something and sell them one at a time
on ebay for 65 bucks each, youre a sleaze.
> internet connection to download mp3s, and some of us also don't have any
> way to put those mp3s onto a CD. Some of us also don't have very good
> speakers on our computer and much prefer to have the ability to
> transport the music somewhere else, or play it in our cars or Walkmen.
like i said before, im sure someone would be willing to make those
people a cd at cost. if i had more cds lying around and an 8x burner i
would do it for people. but i dont.
(soon kids, soon. muhahahahaha)
>
> PS - This isn't meant to be "mean" or any kind of personal attack. I'm
> just pointing something out.
dig.
russ
