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Don Gagen wrote:
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.
This was when we were setting up the OAA, rm's FTP server is not the OAA, and never pretended to be. Many of the other FTP sites that have popped up since have went along with this (out of habit perhaps?) <snip>
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.
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... I don't ever recall rm saying "hey folks, I have the new badorb tracks on my server, rush over and download them so you don't have to pay!" He said that he wanted bob9 (recently) and although I think he should buy his own copy, this is not my perogative. I won't supply him with an illegal copy. I say shame on the person who does, not shame on rm for having a file on his computer. again, who cares what he has on his computer, when he gets the collection of dolphin pr0n, that's when I'll start downloading... :)