RE: [Orb] A "little" "request"

Several years ago, as a list we decided not to publicly offer "IN PRINT" ORB mp3s out of basic respect for the band. This was agreed upon by the list and to some extent the Orb itself by way of Smiley's connections. I'm sure not every list member was aware of this, so now you all know. It's really not that bad, since a large majority of the ORB catalog is out of print anyway. I think we all can appreciate the fact that you are being generous in letting the list members download the tracks you have collected. However, though you do have the right to put any Mp3s on your site, THIS LIST is not the forum to offer "IN PRINT" ORB material for public use.

I'd like to here Smiley's comments when he gets a chance.

Don

-----Original Message-----
From: RMStringer [mailto:rmstringer@netnitco.net]
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 7:47 AM
To: orb@mailman.xmission.com
Subject: RE: [Orb] A "little" "request"

No one has said anything until now. I have a lot of stuff that is "In Print"
and "Out Of Print" Most of the KLF stuff on my site is "Out OF Print" Most
of the 80's Industrial is "Out OF Print" SO What. People get music from me
and trade with me. I put no restrictions such as the aforementioned titles.
Most of the Trance is "In Print" Who Cares. IT is my private site and I will
do with it as I please.

RMStringer
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-----Original Message-----
From: orb-admin@mailman.xmission.com
[mailto:orb-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Chromatest Pantsmaker
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 7:01 AM
To: orb@mailman.xmission.com
Subject: Re: [Orb] A "little" "request"

Chris Johnson or Shannon Beets wrote:
>
> bi11i wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps you didn't quite get that last one...?
>
> Yeah...I got it. "Asking" for it, even obliquely, is uncool. Being
> willing to host it is uncool. Indeed, the mere fact that he is
> apparently "archiving" them publicly is uncool...it encourages others
> not to patronize BadOrb, since they know they can just download them at
> their leisure.

I think most of the people that use his ftp server, are people on this
list, and similar lists. I think that the vast majority of these
people (us) are going to buy from badorb even if badorb had free mp3's
of the tracks, and if we wouldn't, having the free downloads couldn't
further discourage a purchase. On the other hand, I think mr stringer
should buy the badorbs himself...

Like bi11ie said, it was a mistake to share the "personal" mp3 files,
perhaps this is the same thing that rmstringer is doing too. It's his
computer, he no doubt plays the mp3s from the location that the ftp
server sees, so why shouldn't he have the music that he wants to hear
there?

Of course again, he could go through and make all the "in-print" stuff
invisible and/or otherwise block it from the FTP, but if other people
can't be arsed to do this, why should he?

either way you look at it, I won't be downloading any badorb stuff
from his ftp, but I *will* download other stuff. He uploads stuff to
my server as well, and I send stuff to him. It's a community, if you
don't want to d/l then don't.

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