There will come a day when some of the open-source software developers will gain enough popularity that they could attain the right to sell out and "enhance" the licensing aggreement to make it illegal to install there software on more than one machine or refuse to publish source code. This is where the Music Industry was back in 1989. They were fighting Phillips-Magnavox on releasing an affordable ($700) home stereo cd burner. Claiming that the tool would be misused by the consumer and that the consumer should be punished for crimes against the industry (sounds like an Adobe press release)... I think Lars actually made some sense in the interview even though 19 years of Jack Daniels and 3 foot bong hits have wore him out. I belive that mp3's in at least half of the cases are illegal. We need to figure out a way to steal them without getting caught is all. In two years all the companies will have control of the mp3 format. Napster will be bought out by Acme records and be highly profitable or absorbed alltogether. The war is on right now. You are a felon if you bought micro-lost office and installed it on your machine at home AND at work. You are a felon if you show a cable tv sporting event in a business. You are a felon if you copy your records/cd's into an mp3 format and trade them. what we need are ftp web rings that pop up over night and dissappear in days. I'll get back to you...
Listen, everyone has been intelligent and logical about this whole thing. I say fuck it. In three years time every label will have a 'direct download' site and will continue to rape the artists' out in the open. Bands who prance and preen on the TV screen are lucky to take home a dollar for that 14-18 dollar disc you bought at "insert bloated retailer here". I will continue to use Napster, and all the FTP outlets, downloading bands I have never heard of, if I like them I'll go see them. It's so funny really. Lars said in several interviews that back in "the good ole days" people passed thier music in 'bootleg' tapes cause Metal Blade was not giving them the distribution they needed on tour, yet when they played europe, everyone new the words and they were so amazed... Well, I hear enough of thier music on what little radio manages to creep in my ear, I have no intrest in supporting someone who would take the music away from a kid who might think they are gods, just cause they don't have the cash to buy. They should be lucky anyone even cares about thier worn-out ass anymore. My message is this: underground with the bootlegs and Major Label artists, use your own judgement. Let the new bands take this on with a fresh new attitude for the future. They need the fourum. Puffball, Laika, Abscess, Magic Dirt... Great bands I may not have heard if it weren't for the MP3 'revolution', and yes, I bought the cd's after I commited the crime. Metallica and all the bean counters in the world can't stop this...
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There will come a day when some of the open-source software developers will gain enough popularity that they could attain the right to sell out and "enhance" the licensing aggreement to make it illegal to install there software on more than one machine or refuse to publish source code. This is where the Music Industry was back in 1989. They were fighting Phillips-Magnavox on releasing an affordable ($700) home stereo cd burner. Claiming that the tool would be misused by the consumer and that the consumer should be punished for crimes against the industry (sounds like an Adobe press release)... I think Lars actually made some sense in the interview even though 19 years of Jack Daniels and 3 foot bong hits have wore him out. I belive that mp3's in at least half of the cases are illegal. We need to figure out a way to steal them without getting caught is all. In two years all the companies will have control of the mp3 format. Napster will be bought out by Acme records and be highly profitable or absorbed alltogether. The war is on right now. You are a felon if you bought micro-lost office and installed it on your machine at home AND at work. You are a felon if you show a cable tv sporting event in a business. You are a felon if you copy your records/cd's into an mp3 format and trade them. what we need are ftp web rings that pop up over night and dissappear in days. I'll get back to you...
Listen, everyone has been intelligent and logical about this whole thing. I say fuck it. In three years time every label will have a 'direct download' site and will continue to rape the artists' out in the open. Bands who prance and preen on the TV screen are lucky to take home a dollar for that 14-18 dollar disc you bought at "insert bloated retailer here". I will continue to use Napster, and all the FTP outlets, downloading bands I have never heard of, if I like them I'll go see them. It's so funny really. Lars said in several interviews that back in "the good ole days" people passed thier music in 'bootleg' tapes cause Metal Blade was not giving them the distribution they needed on tour, yet when they played europe, everyone new the words and they were so amazed... Well, I hear enough of thier music on what little radio manages to creep in my ear, I have no intrest in supporting someone who would take the music away from a kid who might think they are gods, just cause they don't have the cash to buy. They should be lucky anyone even cares about thier worn-out ass anymore.
My message is this: underground with the bootlegs and Major Label artists, use your own judgement. Let the new bands take this on with a fresh new attitude for the future. They need the fourum. Puffball, Laika, Abscess, Magic Dirt... Great bands I may not have heard if it weren't for the MP3 'revolution', and yes, I bought the cd's after
I commited the crime.
Metallica and all the bean counters in the world can't stop this...