[Closed] Ide like to hear your thoughts

Well... what can I say? I have always enjoyed your enthusiastic comments on the CDs I've produced - but now I'd like to ask you: did you share any of my albums with others on the internet?



mc

Can somebody summarize in few, clear points what happened in there? 'Cause an hour's worth of reading through fsm mess and rants isn't exactly what i'd call "fun"

ok in a nutshell, with the preorder of Mercenaries 2 , you get inside the box Chris Tiltons score.
Great, 5 bucks and you get the score, and you dont have to buy the game the score is free.
I posted the score on a very popular site for game score folks, my mistake.
One of the "persons" on the FSM board works with Chris Tilton and took it upon himself to undermind my popularity there and chastise me for posting it on that site, calling me a thief , and saying other very hurtful things.

LeHah (whatever) ?

Nothing much to add to Peter's outstanding points.

I already made a comparable comment in this most interesting thread, which pretty much exemplifies how in my opinion any such debate should be conducted. On an isue that is so ambivalent on so many levels (legally -different laws in different places-, morally -different considerations in different cultures with different backgrounds-, and psychologically -depending on what side of the fence you are on-), it is inevitable there will be clashes of opinions.
BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THE DEBATE CANNOT BE CONDUCTED IN A CIVIL TONE.

I actually *have* read through the thread yesterday evening, and all I can say is I'm so sorry, Moonie.
This deserved way better handling, even if your actions may have been considered to be (legally) wrong. And yeah, unrestrained namecalling is hurtful and ultimately pointless,a s it completely dilutes and ultimately invalidates the discussion, which, as I said, is a most interesting one, and one that should be conducted on any music forum.

PS: your real name is Steve?!?
Finally we know the man behind the Moontrekker!

Civilised debate without resorting to name calling.

What more can one add!?

OK folks Im ready to let this die and fall by the way side.
Lessions Learned.



bye bye thread


sd


Im listening to Youngs Invaders From Mars score, bought legally from Intrada and enjoying it very much.

As I wasn't able to add a comment earlier I'll add one now - at the risk of finally killing off the thread.

I thought that the whole episode could have been handled better and that some sort of private correspondence could have ended things without the very public name calling it ended up being.

One thing that did strike me about the whole thing was that part of the arguments centred around the resultant loss of revenue that uploading a yet-to-be-released CD would give rise to. And I'm sure there is a certain amount of money lost to the various interested parties - covered in the other topic referred to above. But I was wondering if the CD given away with the game pre-ordering would also result in lost revenue to the composer? I got the impression from reading the posts that there was surprise that the music was being released in this form early. And if the composer is making money mainly from iTunes or CD sales then the music being given away with pre-orders would mean that the composer would lose out because of lack of subsequent sales via CD/iTunes and/or not much money coming his way with the CD being "given away" with pre-order sales of the game itself.

Maybe there's been a call to the marketing strategists to make (behind-closed-doors) comments about this form of music distribution?

It's a good discussion, and Alan and Steve are both making good points, but I agree with Steve that maybe we should take the personal take out of the equation and continue here?

If bregt wants to move the thread , I have no problem with it. If that can be done. Im basicly done, but it does make for a interesting conversation , done in a civil way like its done here.
Some of the dorks at the FSM board could learn some lessions from you guys.

The music legal system is as complicated as the IRS in America. I'm sure that every member of FSM who bought that extra copy of a limited edition that ends up being sold on e-bay/amazon declares that income and pays taxes on it. Yeah, right.

Thomas

It's piracy and it's illegal and we've debated the rights and wrongs of it many times, but whatever the morality, it's still illegal, and why anyone would post so publically about it is rather beyond me.