HW: Boots on E-bay

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On sön 18 apr 1999 08.53 +0000 "Bob Lennon" <Hawkwinder at AOL.COM> wrote:
> Tape sales are what kills it for the average fan(s) who want to tape
shows.
> When bands deny honest tapers, those who don't sell their wares, they
point
> to the examples of those who do.

     Who the heck is dumb enough to _buy_ *tapes*?  So easy to trade
other recordings or send blanks.  If bands want to spread their
music _and_ beat bootleggers, the obvious way is to encourage
taping and trading.  That'll kill the CD-R boot market as well.

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/