I just want this whole thing dropped really. LOTT is very passionate about trying to preserve this and I respect his good intentions. I would have liked to try to find some right thing to do.
There are good points here. Stuff was uploaded to one site only. Without ownership of the site it's not ethical. Great point Don....stream onlys for download. A person may have already shared most of this stuff on dc++ for all we know.
I wouldn't buy Versionist for the value in tracks. It was a goodwill offer for a worthless site and a database that was owned by the artists. The ethical mess it all creates and seemingly brought to light is a headache.
We have so much new material here that it boggles the mind. I can't really stay on the backward thought. I respect LOTT and appreciate him reaching to me this morning. If I owned Versionist.com there may have been a legal way to do this without infringing on the artists. Stream them all? I dunno. Round and round it goes.
I am certainly positive I'm looking forward to bigger and better things like releasing a record.
V is dead. Perhaps we should show some respect for the deceased and family (ourselves).
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