[KRAFTWERK] KW 1 and 2

[Leonard R. Cleavelin]

At 03:58 AM 11/7/2007, Matthew Dean wrote:
>LRC said:
>
>I see if you lived in the US you'd be one of
>those folks preaching against birth control and
>advocating pre-marital abstenence/post-marital
>monogamy. Yes, probably the ideal, but HIGHLY unrealistic.
>
>I live in South Africa and I'm one of those people. Music is hardly 
>in the same league as
>morals and murder. Just to let you know :-)

No question they are not in the same league. The basic principle is 
the same, though. The original suggestion was basically, "Don't buy 
bootleg CDs of the first three albums just because KW won't authorize 
reissues, because you don't have the 'right' to own CDs of all their albums."

That's a very true statement, but realistically, don't hold your 
breath waiting for the teeming millions to suffer an attack of 
conscience and forswear buying bootlegs of music/movies/TV shows that 
they can't get via legitimate channels (my loose moral interpretation 
in these cases doesn't apply to anyone who bootlegs copies of 
music/movies/TV shows which ARE available via legitimate channels; 
drastic situations justify drastic measures :-) ). Similarly don't 
hold your breath expecting human beings (especially horny USAnian 
teenagers) to develop strictly orthodox "Christian" consciences and 
stop f*cking outside of the bounds of holy matrimony. The history of 
the human species makes it abundantly clear that neither (forswearing 
illicit entertainment media and forswearing illicit sex) is gonna happen.

And I say this as the owner of the bootlegs of "Kraftwerk", 
"Kraftwerk 2", and "Ralf und Florian", as well as bootleg DVDs of the 
TV series "Quark" and "The Green Hornet". In my defense, I'll say is 
that in the event these products are ever given authorized CD/DVD 
releases I'll *immediately* shell out money for the legit copies and 
destroy my bootlegs. The only reason I've resorted to the bootleg 
route here is to complete my collection of certain media where 
authorized copies simply aren't available; if authorized copies were 
available I'd happily pay out my simoleons to the folks marketing them.

Cheers,

LRC


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