HW: Hawkwind at Strange Daze 98 MPEG audio

[Kevin Sommers]

Sorry, but I can't agree with the sentiment here.  I like bootlegs.  There,
I said it.  The pros and cons of them have been debated widely, and kind of
like religion or politics, debates generally probably won't make people
change their minds.  I have bought boots on eBay (not Hawkwind, but others)
and hopefully will continue to do so.  I don't buy boots unless I like the
band enough to have most (or all) of their official stuff already.
Now about religion.......

Kevin Sommers

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List [mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Paul Mather
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 8:21 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
> Subject: Re: HW: Hawkwind at Strange Daze 98 MPEG audio
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Kevin Sommers wrote:
>
> => > On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Michael Habiby wrote:
>
> => > => As it is not copyrighted this concert has been posted to
> => > => alt.binaires.sounds.MP3.bootlegs and cross posted in
> ....1970's, ...
> => >
> => > So does this mean we can expect to see _Masters of the
> Universe '98_ on
> => > some obscure Italian label appear in the Codex in the near
> future? ;-)
> => No, I guess we see "Starfire Mountain Dreaming" on eBay.......
>
> => > (Actually, the concert must be copyrighted by someone [the person who
> => > recorded it]; I just don't know by whom!  Someone uploaded
> it to my FTP
> => > site, and I just moved it to the download area as a service to BOC-L
> => > folks.  I sincerely hope it doesn't end up as a bootleg as a result.)
> => Too late (see above).
>
> It's sad to see my prophecy come true. :-(  But, the best way to deal
> with this is to point out to eBay that the auction in question is
> selling a bootleg item and they will yank it.  If the seller persists in
> auctioning bootlegs, eBay will end up banning him or her from selling on
> eBay.
>
> People on the Gov't Mule list, for example, get rogue Gov't Mule items
> removed from eBay all the time.  EBay are very receptive to policing
> illegal items, apparently, because they are very self-conscious about
> maintaining a good public image.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>         --- Frank Vincent Zappa
>