HW: WOTEOT

[Steve Youles]

I totally sympathise with these sentiments, and simultaneously feel that it
is totally the wrong way to go about things.  There is huge demand for
WOTEOT to be made available on CD again - along with Quark, ASAM, PXR5,
Hawklords and whatever else is missing from the pantheon.  That isn't going
to happen if people do things that are (technically) piractical and
illegal, however understandable that is.  I'd also chip in with the
observation that copying official albums is not the same as audience taping
of live gigs.  I've slightly more sympathy with the latter, but am quite
ready to accept the band's ban on that.

*Of course*, any Hawkwind fan who's committed enough to belong to this list
is not going to be satisfied with MP3 copies, or a tape.  They want the
real album, on an official release.  I know that.  You know that.  But the
accountants who run major record companies (i.e. the only people who could
ensure these works get re-released) don't know that.  They are bean
counters who will regard this kind of copying as loss of sales.  And let's
face it, Hawkwind's back catalogue has to be their main commercial asset,
more so than future albums.

(As a case in point, I have an audience-taping CDR of the 18/08/01
Canterbury Sound Festival gig.  When I get my hands on the official
release, I'll break the CDR into a thousand pieces, place the wreckage on
the scanner and post an image of it on my website for all to see.)

So, while I don't think this is an immoral action, I don't think it's The
Right Thing To Do, either.

I hope that wasn't shouty!  And forty quid for a Dojo version of the album
seems like a reasonably good price to have attained...

Cheers

Steve


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On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 01:15:28 -0000, Richard Lockwood
<rich at BEERPOWEREDNOISEFRENZY.CO.UK> wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>I know a few of you expressed interest in my mate's copy of Warrior.  Just
>to let you know he's sold it for forty quid on Amazon.
>
>He's asked me to say thanks for the interest and all that - and if there's
>anyone who wanted it just for its musical qualities, he's ripped it out to
>MP3.  So, as WOTEOT is deleted, anyone who wants it contact me, and I'll
>put you in touch with Sean.

<snip>

>If an album is deleted (as WOTEOT is), and you want to hear it, and your
>mate owns a copy, is it immoral for him to tape (or CD) it and give you a
>copy knowing full well that you're going to keep it?

<snip>

>So, now he's sold it, is forty quid for the Dojo version a good price (for
>him!)?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Rich.