On Sat, Aug 27th, 2011 at 10:59 AM, "Dan T. Hutchins" <danthutchins@gmail.com> wrote:
The comments I've been hearing are that most on the list don't share even though this is supposed to be an open community.
Aside from the list's long, long history of sharing via Marshall's old 1987 stock being unearthed, the Arkive CDs, the White Room Soundtrack CDs, the two Lost Sounds Of Mu volumes, people's home "remasters" of unreleased or OOP material, people's rips of VHS-only material, people's taping and uploading of UK-only TV, John Milne (IIRC) ripping and posting big chunks of his Kollection as he was selling it off... I think it would be hard to argue that Lazlo founded this list in ...1991? as an "open community" to share mp3s and FLACS of OOP records. I'm happy to hear such an argument, but it's going to have to have the same relationship to actual chronology* as your explanation of the finances behind your "guarantee" that when Bill makes soup for free for a family of five in the Hebrides, that they're actually all annuated KLF fans that he's making money out of. *some starting points: the records were in print in 1991, the first mp3 encoder wasn't released until 1994, and FLAC wasn't invented until 2001, and didn't really take off until OiNK's boom, AFAIK, circa 2005-6?