Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vaughn Williams Tuba Concerto


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Posted by Rick Denney on November 09, 2000 at 12:18:49:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vaughn Williams Tuba Concerto posted by SirC on November 08, 2000 at 21:51:48:

It depends, I suppose, on whether it is your main gig. If the money coming from recordings is just gravy, or if you made the recording to make your resume for another gig look good, or if you made the recording for public relations value, then you probably won't care about pirating. Any publicity is better than no publicity.

But if you depend on that money, or if you are a producer or studio and that money is how you justify such projects, then losing that revenue might mean the difference between success and failure, and might mean the difference between getting another recording or not.

But all this is moot. The morality can be argued all the live-long day, but the bottom line is that copying the recordings is illegal, and simply breaking the law has its own moral stipulations.

A few months ago, many contributors to this list lobbied successfully for the production of a re-release of some recordings by the Phillip Jones Brass Ensemble. If we just copied the recording ourselves, there would be no new release. And if the record company thought everyone would just copy the recordings, they would not take the risk.

It does mean that some recordings will never be released that we would want to listen to, and that's too bad. But without the system that produces that unfortunate result, there would be many recordings that we would never see in the first place. That would be even worse.

Rick "won't copy recordings" Denney


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