Can someone please explain to me this concern about piracy? I never remember this being a concern in techno. Did you feel guilty when you got a mix tape from a DJ? Have you included full set lists with every mix you've ever done? Have you contacted and negotiated a price with artists for any materials you've sampled (there is no five second rule)? Have you contacted every artist who's track you used on a mix and paid appropriate royalties (giving the mix away for free doesn't change this requirement)? I never ever saw this shit come up until people thought they could be rockstars with techno. At one point, it seemed that techno damn near prided itself on how fast and easilly it could take rearrange the sounds of others, often within the genre. Seriously, how many of you get burnt if you see some kid with your tracks on Soulseek? How many of you get pissed if you hear someone playing a digital copy of your music? Hell, when's the last time you saw royalties for a DJ playing your track publicly
anyways? Hell, how many people here have paid for all the tools they use to right music? What's arguably worse? Downloading a $0.06-$0.10 for listening purposes or downloading $500+ software to write music and sell it? I can understand not approving of piracy. But, it seems people have gotten a little overly anal about it.

Something to ponder. Considering how many people here probably share the opinion that techno is saturated with crap releases because of kids with software who rightly believe that they can learn to produce the music themselves, is adopting a similar tired stance of the RIAA, or making it increasingly dificult through technology for people to hear music, going to do anything but encourage people to give you 2 middle fingers and possibly ram them up your ass as they get more proficient with their own music? Those of you who have legally purchased everything you use to cut a track and get high and mighty on me. The rest of you, however, are pretty much hypocrites if you'll scold others who, when it comes to the royalty payments one would earn from sales, have stolen les money with their entire digital music collection than a number of producers have stolen by just downloading one effects plugin pack.