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  1. We sold 2 USB sticks and refunded the payment today. The site is down. I am still under the impression that privately offering the items was OK, but my interpretation of the law may be wrong.
  2. Good point…and where did I offer these items for re-sale? These items are not available via my web site to purchase, nowhere on the web have I uploaded them for purchase, so I’m missing the point of this entire conversation. Legal or not, up-sampling material that I legally purchased for my private home server is not a crime. The USB stick may or may not be, but that is a non-issue since the idea is dropped. My understanding is that illegal use is a competing media format, as the example of a CD-R or download; I haven’t been able to find where a USB stick, hard drive, etc., is considered an illegal act. If you are able to find that information please point it out to me because it is something I would like to read. I have read the RIAA copyright law numerous of times, and my understanding is that we did not break any laws by privately offering pc files. On the other hand if I provided a download site or payment link via my web site, if I burned the material to a CD-R, mini-disc, or DAT, or if I uploaded the file via email that is a different story, and considered a form of illegal distribution, but none of that is the case. This entire conversation is based on speculation from folks that have not purchase items from my site.
  3. This tread has recently come to my attention; apparently there is a tremendous amount of speculation about the intention of my CD up-sampled projects/collection? Why? The physical projects are not available to the general public for re-sale. My projects are not intended to be redistributed in any form considered illegal by the music industry. It is true that I considered the idea of offering a few of the up-sampled projects in the form of an uncompressed .flac file via a USB stick, but in light of recent events have opted to drop the idea. We will no longer be making any of our projects available to the general public. I am currently located in Europe, and to my knowledge, at no time did I violate current US copyright law by up-sampling my personal CD collection for private use. I am also fairly confident that I did not break any laws offering the up-sampled computer files in the form of a USB stick. My knowledge of the RIAA copyright states that distribution is considered an internet download/upload from a pirate site, use of email, IM, illegal membership sites, etc. It is also considered an unaltered mirror to mirror hard copy in the form of a CD-R, mini disc, or DAT. Up-sampling material for private use is not a crime, and as the law is currently written, offering a computer file via a USB stick is also not a crime and does not require the user to purchase the rights to the material. On the other hand, if someone that has purchased the file from me decides to upload/re-sale the media then that is considered a crime. With that said I find the above comment about Kind of Blue interesting. "He sold a version of "Kind of Blue" apparently sourced from vinyl or some other not original digital source and then "cleaned up" using his proprietary methods. It wasn't well received in terms of SQ." I ripped and up-sampled Kind of Blue 2 days ago, and besides myself no one has heard it. If you know otherwise please email this individual so I can address their untruth. Email: [email protected] A little background on my current projects: None are sourced from vinyl. The older projects are EAC rip to an external up-sample capture. Now I use EAC to HD-Solo Ultra to up-sample. And BTW, at no time did I ever list my projects as sourced from the "Original Masters", that apparently is something you folks have manufactured over the past couple of days. Now I would appreciate that this non-sense comes to an end. Alan Maher
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