Subj : Should EMulation....
To   : Hax0r
From : Tinman
Date : Thu Jun 08 2000 03:36 pm

RE: Should EMulation....
BY: Hax0r to Amcleod on Thu Jun 08 2000 10:28 pm

 > RE: Should EMulation....
 > BY: Amcleod to Hax0r on Thu Jun 08 2000 04:54 am
 > 
 >  > So long as you are doing it _for_your_own_use_ I don't think there's anyt
 >  > wrong with it.  If you want to take all your Van Halen CD's and mix up yo
 >  > "Best Of" disk on CD-R that's fine.  It's when you start giving them away
 >  > selling them that you are essentially crossing the line.
 > 
 > Ok, lets take it one step further...how about playing your rom dump on an
 > emulator, or even sharing your metallica mp3's with other metallica fans who
 > own the album?  I don't quite see how any one can restrict these types of
 > behavior....and cracking down on college kids or emulation websites is not t
 > answer
 > 

 It's funny, pearl jam is taking an interesting angle, thay are releasing 27
new albums which thay are calling "official bootlegs", each album will be of a
differant live proformance (PJ has always encouraged the tapeing of live shows)
but thay say the fans always wind up with low quality music, so thay are making
it easyer for them to get it, and get it good.

 It's not going to be possible to stop bootleging, but if your fans think of
you as trying to help them out in that area there will be qwite a few who
actually have a concions who will say "nah, these guys are cool, lets buy the
album"... On the other hand, if you go turn in 300,000 of your fans, thay will
only want to do it more, beacuse thay wont want to give you their money after
what was done to them.

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