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Originally Posted by stimpee
If you wish to discuss things like this, then please do it away from the forum.
intensifier has just proven that copies can be bought legally and cheaply if youre lucky enough and look hard enough.
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Bloody hell. This is stupid. Maybe in a purely bureaucratic sense you are right, but if you're saying that UW are losing out if you download a rare remix because you might be able to hunt out a 2nd hand copy of Mmm Skyscraper on eBay or somewhere else, then you are, I'm afraid, talking bollocks. Personally I frown upon the unscrupulous way in which many people use p2p (i.e. instead of buying any music at all), but if we're going to get twitchy because someone suggests downloading a rare remix from a long-deleted single release, then we truly are ani (ani being the plural of anus). Is there a serious suggestion that downloading the track in question would deprive UW/JBO of any financial income? Surely it's highly unlikely that Karl, Rick or Steve Hall are actually selling this on eBay in an attempt to balance the books from 13 years ago? And sorry to get all semantic on you, but intensifier has not 'proven that copies can be bought legally and cheaply if youre lucky enough and look hard enough', merely that he/she was lucky enough to find one at such a price. Personally I've found the price to be more in line with what was mooted early in this thread, and hence would encourage anyone who didn't want to pay such a price to download both the Jamscraper and Telegraph remixes as soon as they get the chance, instead of lining some dealer's pockets (unless they really want the artwork or whatever).