Tully and a pint of Guin. then Mick...

"For the whole world to copy"

Well, that's part of the debate eh... one side says thast since Peer-To-Peer filesharing became 'easy' (Anybody who's even vaguely computer litterate KNOWS that we've been pirating ALL KINDS of software for eyar and years and years... Napster wasn't new) that record sales are down (Big surprise, this comes from teh record compaines) and the other side says record sales are up (The Pro-Napster people)

Who's right? Who can say...

All I can say is, there are artists, CD and the like that I NEVER would have even been exposed to if someone hadn'ta had an illegal sample and intro'd me that way...

And I know I've done the same thing... Don Ross (Canadian Guitar God) is vocally ANTI-sharing... And given the narrow scope of his appeal I guess I can sorta see why... (Solo accoustic Guitar has NEVER been a big seller) BUT... Off the top of my head, I can think of at least 15 people I've given sample MP3s to, or included a song or 2 of his on a mixed Mini-disk, who ahve on their own then, gone out and purchased his CDs... people who, until I intro'd them to him, had not a frigg'n clue what a Don Ross even was...

Does that justify it? I donno... ask Don I guess...

If he said "NO" would it stop me? No... not even for a second... It's damn good music, and if I can do even a little to spread it around, I'm gonna...