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Mickey, no full albums because its too much? is that why? just wondering. thanks, btw.

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------yeah it's a few years gone ie. it's DONE, we've moved beyond! What is now is what is right! Heaven forfend anything change in the future, I'll be furious! Fuck I hate people. Shortsighted little fucks.

Yeah you're right. Man I wonder why Discord even bothers producing CDs at all. I mean Napster proved that was pointless, right?

ian mackaye is a money grubbing slumlord.
Suggestions why would especially be tight.

seriously, we're just being dicks. in all earnestness, posting entire albums is a horrible idea. It is an affront to all the hard work of people at the label, and you'll look foolish asking people to buy a CD that they have just downloaded in toto and are loading up onto their iPod.

really though, from a selfish perspective, in order to gain readers you will need other mp3blogs to link to you. NO ONE will do that if you flout their paradigm so thoroughly.

so I would go one song. Is there a freeware tool where you can stream the entire album in the background while someone is reading your site? maybe that would be a happy medium?

i don't know what the software was, check whatever technology is at www.jinners.com i bookmarked her site once because it has this interesting auto-jukebox thing on the site that plays music. could be irritating but really cool technology.

the "affront" is really to the smaller indies who can't/won't pay for the RIAA's protection. Posting major label albums would certainly result in an eventual ceast and desist, maybe worse?

there's inevitably going to be a blogger test case for music copyright infringement, and I'm sure you don't want it to be you.

Also, I see where people are going with the YSI angle, but I hardly ever revisit sites that offer no content and YSI. If there's a clever blurb and a steady download link I'll go back. If there's a lot of cool commentary and YSI, I will go but sporadically since I know the songs will disappear. No commentary and YSI? Not worth my time.

-- (\/)¤¤kíë \€/¤ñ (chimichanga@christiancoalition.com) (webmail), September 15th, 2005. (mookie wilson)

I really don't see how this sort of hypothetical "blogger test case for music copyright infringement" will happen. It won't be a test case. I admit, I'm not a lawyer, but I do have some experience with copyright infringement law. From my limited experience, it seems pretty cut and dry. Pretty much every blog that posts copyrighted material without permission, be it one single song or one album, is eligible to be taken to court and charged with criminal copyright infringement, a felony. I don't see anything to be "tested" here. Thankfully, that hasn't happened yet. In my opinion, posting full albums is pushing closer to a trend that will eventually lead to blog infringement cases. That is why I say you shouldn't post entire albums.

First the federal DOJ only targetted the scene and public webpages selling wares. Then they branched out to different things: BitTorrent, newsgroups, public IRC channels, etc.

Right now, mp3 blogs are still pretty small (yes, shocking). They do not yet look like PIRACY, but only "piracy." At one point, this is how PC software wares was. Look at archives of fairlight.org for example. Mp3 blogs are clearly a growing trend though, and I fear that they will slowly begin to resemble PIRACY more, such as posting full albums with little to no commentary. At that point, it seems less like what we think of as mp3 blogs now and resembles alt.warez.mp3 or whatever... but in blog format. Once that happens, it's only a matter of time before prosecutions happen. There's no question over the legality of the matter -- the only thing keeping mp3 blogs from being prosecuted now is perception.

However, to avoid confusion, it has been taken down
for the time being."
-fairlight.org

are you sure that's what you meant?

My point is, computer software piracy was once seen as innocent as mp3 blogs appear today. When I was a lot younger, a newspaper in Chapel Hill published a list of BBS in the area. Some of them were for warez trading. That's how public it was. The groups who cracked games and software would give you a snail mail address to contact them at. That's how public it was.

My point is, the essence of software piracy hasn't changed at all. Cracking is cracking. The only difference is the perception of software piracy has changed.

On the other hand, given that record companies are actively recruiting blogs to write about their releases, it does seem that they don't care about them too much (and there's been a lot of press coverage about them in the past year, so it's not as if they're underground or anything).

Having said that, I stopped my MP3 blog last year after I got a threat from the BPI…

You're absolutely correct. But don't be a snob. I wasn't pretending Fugazi was any big secret, and there is a reason people keep listening to them/reading "Catcher in the Rye". Some of us didn't get the chance to digest this stuff when we were 15. So we're catching up. Sue me.

I don't feel like buying it.