I should've thought this would happen.

[aruan]

What if, less-than-hypothetically, someone were selling my mp3s of JC's show as an audio CD for personal profit?

*seethes*

I made that recording because I knew I couldn't wait the two months until the album officially came out to hear the songs again, an album of which I plan on buying enough copies for a small country. But I wanted to make them available for everyone who wouldn't get the experience and energy of JC live, free to anyone who wanted it. If I'd wanted to, I could've done the eBay thing like so many others, but I never, not for a single moment did it for any kind of glory or profit. And not only is this being done without my permission (not that said individual needs it, as neither one of us owns anything in this scenario) but it's being done for profit, which not only goes against the spirit in which these clips were shared by an extremely generous community of people, but it's something that could well be detrimental in other ways.

Is it ridiculous that I feel as if "my" music has just been reverse-pirated?

Nothing I can do? Didn't think so. *sigh* Live and learn, I suppose.

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[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

Cooper just mentioned he's selling copyrighted material, which is even more wrong. I mean, most of what he does really is a good service for a lot of fandom who are looking for dated or obscure appearances, and while it's not at cost he does make them very reasonably priced, but some of the things like this that he didn't procure and were meant to be made freely available need to be stopped. I'm trying to figure out how I can definitively, not that I have any doubt right now, that the mp3s are mine without buying a copy, and go from there. I'd be prepared to procure some kind of webspace or offer to burn them to CD myself, at cost. I don't know. I friendslocked this entry, trying to collect my thoughts before going out and out with this, but it's upsetting nonetheless.