Hi Juhana, My personal FTp is down already, but not out of fear for the music industry. The debate on violation of copyright is a difficult one. I'd be the first in the shops when Yello outputs the long awaited collection of all there rare material. It will be added to my current collection of Yello hardware that I bought over the years. The FTP idea, started out as a means of sharing the absolute rare material that can't be purchased anymore. In that respect, you won't find full album copies or things like that. It is still illegal, but true fans should get what they deserve. That's music, and not Jail :-) - Let's say that if I could go to any shop on a monday afternoon and run down my list of Yello stuff I still miss, and I could buy it right there in that shop, I wouldn't be scrounging the net for mp3's and such. I'm a collector and fan, not a criminal. But the idea is obvious I guess. So, I don't have a problem with our little FTP solution. However.. while using Kazaa and SoulSeek for my search of rare stuff, I also see complete album rips that are still available in stores... that bothers me. Perhaps a contradiction but there's a shade of gray in all this. With the FTP on a different location and thus a new manager we can still keep up the faith that it will remain a rare-stuff ftp and not some server with evey last bit of yello noise. - And talking about copying ... I'm nearly done with the Live at the Roxy. There are some timing problems, where the lipsink of Dieter doesn't match what you hear. It'll be ready this evening I guess and tomorrow on the FTP. The quality is a bit poor. This is caused by my videotape, and the just repaired (!) videogear. It seems there's a loop in the earthing which causes a slight flimmer now and then. Something I cannot repair. But it looks okay... and it's better that having to watch it clipped down to chunks the way Yello decided to put it on tape. - Rene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Juhana Sadeharju" <kouhia@nic.funet.fi> Subject: [Yello] ftp vs. copyright?
Hello. If I heard correctly the music industry have announced to attack each music downloader from now on.