t.savoy@insightbb.com wrote:
Ok, here's my two cents. Whenever possible, buy legally made and distributed material (DVDs, VCDs, or whatever), even if it costs more and/or you have to wait longer for it to be delivered. However, if a product exists and the distributors (for whatever reason) are unwilling to release it to your part of the world, then I don't think its wrong in a moral sense to acquire it through ebay, newsrooms, or whatever.
The problem is, that much of Yello stuff can be bought in record stores here in Finland and probably in many other places in Europe. My local store often has even their earliest material, Solid Pleasure etc. Only the singles are sold only for a short time after their release. When people put stuff for sale on ebay, people from Finland can buy it, and Boris and Dieter are left without their money. Therefore, it's not okay to sell copies on the net, but maybe it's okay to buy, sometimes. Of course, the price can be lower when buying here locally, so it would not make sense to buy them from the net, I don't know... -- Jussi Salmi http://staff.cs.utu.fi/~jussalmi/