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----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Stephens" <[log in to unmask]> > Bob Olhsson wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >>From Rod Stephens: "...I vaguely remember in "the good 'ole days", > >making copies and sharing music with my reel to reel machines and later > >with my cassette recorders. We then would buy the original LPs/45s of > >the best of the best with good album notes and pictures. Somehow the > >recording industry seemed to prosper in those less restrictive and > >creative days." > >This is comparing apples to oranges. People needed to meet up, make their > >copies in real time, pay good money for blank media and a copy of the copy > >was pretty raunchy sounding. > I object. My reel to reel machines were always "Hi-Fi" as were my > cassette decks. > > > We also didn't have investment bankers creating > >new corporations having a "business model" of profiteering from facilitating > >copyright infringement. > > > >Piracy is far from the only or even the biggest problem professional music > >faces today but make no mistake about the fact that it has cost at least a > >generation of youngsters any opportunity to have a career creating and > >performing music. They and the music fans are the real losers. > > > > > Nobody was talking about "piracy" back then. Copying was the privilege > of owning the original recording. But, yes, it took more time and > energy and love of sharing good music to do it. > But what CAN be done today...and what couldn't be done (except possible in a very few cases) is that one can create what is sonically and digitally an EXACT copy of a sound recording! In every analog format, duplication involved loss of content as well as addition of spurious content. The only exception could have been the vinyl repressings taken not-quite-licitly from original "metal parts"...? Steven C. Barr