OFF: MP3s, pirates, & all that jazz

[Ben Fagin]

I coudnt agree more.

On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 16:14, you wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I was just contemplating over another email I wrote about The Sweet
> re-recording their old material yet again, & got to thinking that, as
> someone living in West Australia, it is almost impossible to find nothing
> but Greatest Hits or Best Of CDs by a vast majority of artists (with the
> exception of the really big names).
> If you go into any shops here, you are very unlikely to find anything by
> Hawkwind, with the exception of maybe 2 CDs in the specialty shops in Perth
> itself. With many others you have no chance, which brings me to my
> headline. No wonder a great deal of people are doing this sort of thing,
> when it's impossible to get the stuff (not being into drugs myself, I bet
> it's a lot easier in WA to get it than a CD by someone like Bill Nelson!).
>
> I just wish more artists could find a way to make this material more easily
> accessable to the fans (and in a legal way too). They could provide some
> means to download all the material, covers, etc., off the net, but through
> some sort of secure server?
>
> Going very slightly off topic again, why do companies that produce software
> sometimes make you charge about the same amount as a PC for an upgrade?
>
> I know this sort of thing has been covered before, but the way things seem
> now, it's becoming easier to get things illegally than it is legally.
>
> William