i agree - for me being the little guy doesn't mean having a 2k computer and
going to a 20k a year college. personally i think it isn't all bad since
even though metallica may not need the extra money from records alot of
independent label acts probably do, and maybe this can help them out.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jo-Jo Samuel <jojo6732@hotmail.com>
To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: (off topic apologies) RE: Metallica is suing my school
> I don't see this that far out of scope since this stuff effects all music.
>
> I realize it's hard to feel sorry for anybody who's made millions of
dollars
> selling their music, but i feel less sorry for some jerk-offs who steal
> peoples soul to sell it on the internet and then hide behind this fake
vail
> of being the little guy. I personally know how it feels to bust your ass,
> break your bank account, family and everything else to pour your soul into
> your music only to have some worm put your music (without your permission)
> on one of these MP3 sites. It's not about money since I'm broke and
> completely happy. It's about holding onto the only thing that some artists
> have.
>
> JJ
>
>
> >From: "Manire, Aaron D" <amanire@indiana.edu>
> >To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> >Subject: (off topic apologies) RE: Metallica is suing my school
> >Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:12:55 -0500
> >
> >Ahem... IU *had* a ban on napster. I think this is the URL
> >http://www.savenapster.com/ that Sibyl mentions.
> >
> >interesting site, although I don't quite share the author's taste in
music
> >
> >My take on mp3 piracy is this:
> >
> >If I like and respect the artist enough, I will buy the released vinyl
> >complete with cover art, white sleeves, plastic wrapping, new record
scent,
> >etc. I am predisposed to imagine that most people would feel the same
> >towards honoring their favorite artists and buy the cd. And we all make
> >higher quality choices than by being able to preview the album. We have
> >the
> >luxury of thinking to ourselves, "am I going to listen to this two years
> >from now?" So by evolutionary terms, this change shifts the financial
> >rewards for a musician such that the returns from classic, enduring music
> >will gain relative to the loss taken by artists who focus on transient
> >hits.
> >The crap to quality ratio improves for *hardcopy*. Questions such as
> >whether D'Angelo's album is a classic become even more emphatic. (I own
> >the
> >vinyl btw). I don't think Metallica has a case, legally or morally.
> >
> >According to the drummer, Lars Ulrich, "We take our craft - whether it be
> >the music, the lyrics, or the photos and artwork - very seriously, as do
> >most artists,.. It is therefore sickening to know that our art is being
> >traded like a commodity rather than the art that it is."
> >
> >What a lie. He didn't mind when it was *in deed* commodified by whatever
> >label they signed to.
> >
> >pardon the rant,
> >Adario
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Aaron -
> >IU had reached an agreement with napster which would 'legalize' it
> >provided that it and various other web clients would be a low-priority
for
> >the server. However that works. The napster boy and his posse were here
> >this week to talk about it, though I didn't/couldn't go. My supervisor
> >here at the digital library program keeps us all up to date on the whole
> >melodrama, including sending us all the url of the site devoted to
getting
> >campuses to 'give us our napster back.'
> >
> >-s-
> >
> >On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Manire, Aaron D wrote:
> >
> > > Isn't that bizarre? IU has a ban on napster, too. Check out the
> >article:
> > >
http://www.idsnews.com/news/2000.04.14/campus/2000.04.14.metallica.html
> > >
> > > Paz,
> > > Adario
> > >
> >
>
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