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However, though you do have the right to put any Mp3s on your site,
Actually, he does *NOT* have the right to put almost any of those FTP's and other files on his site. I don't believe that any of us have distribution rights or own the copyright to the majority of the files that are hosted by the various sites. While the copyright law can be interpreted that we can have a copy of recordings that we own, we cannot distribute them, or allow them to be distributed.
I'm not that ignorant. He doesn't have the right to public distribution of any type, but I saw no point in getting that granular. I'd just be splitting hairs. I was speaking in terms of this list only.
THIS LIST is not the forum to offer "IN PRINT" ORB material for public use.
And why not? If people are going to download that stuff, they'll get it from scour, limewire, soulseek, irc, etc...
Why not? Out of respect for Alex and the ORB. Let scour, limewire, and the others rip Alex off, not the members of the ORB list who are supposed to support him.