Re: Warez - A Rebuttal

[KB305@aol.com]

In a message dated 09/10/2000 9:13:27 AM Central Daylight Time, 
gregor.zavcer@kiss.uni-lj.si writes:

<< Can you explain me how can you tell if the music is honest when you hit 
play
 on the CD? >>

I don't know about anyone else, but I know I can tell, and yet I don't 
know 
how to quantify that judgment.

And, it may simply be honest about how fucked up it is, too.  Things are 
revealed in music that are not revealed in direct, person-to-person 
experience.

And every musical event involves two: the musician and the listener.  Each 
brings his/her own frames of reference to the event.  (Most American 
frames 
of reference are shaped by that BSb/Britney mentality, and it has always 
been 
so.  Pop culture is what it is.  This makes 'art' more difficult.  
Somewhere 
there are gray areas, too, and those who wish to subvert this paradigm.)

Can you tell when another person is lying to you?  It's the same question, 
really...

I'm glad this thread has erupted this way... how it gets around to 
looping, I 
don't know, but these are things musicians should think about, loopers or 
not.  

All of the above is my judgment (IMFA).

Kevin