can we? dunno, but Greg seems to be having a 'Treasure Moment.' as for John's analogies, I need an analgesic. the lost Ibex tape thread and the Golders Green thread inspire me to buy the big iPod or some other mp3/video player, decorate it like a bottle of Moet et Chandon, and cram it to the gills with Queen. End of existential dilemma format vs content.
must be a lot of other folks who have done this or something like it by now...I searched on 'boxset' here on QZ and found some interesting posts by Dennis Daja and Dobo. Does Jim Jenkins post on QZ? I'd love to hear his thoughts about this mountainous and snaky search for the Queen catalog grail.
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"Can't the collectors of Queenzone (and perhaps other queensites, with a certain amount of collectors) create their own archive?"
A physical archive would never work. Things would get political and blood would get spilt.
Maybe a digital one would work out, but I highly doubt it'd be one that people could download from, willy nilly. Who'd pay for the bandwidth?
I always figured though, that if everyone uploaded everything, that QZ would be a sort of archive anyhow - more a sort of "Can someone reupload this?" archive if anything.
That would also never work. You'd get some clever son of a bitch refusing to upload one or two things, which would defeat the purpose.
What'd be really nice is if everything was available in shitty quality, and then collectors/traders could merely squabble over the actual discs/reels/tapes themselves. A thousand people could download "Hangman(Studio).mp3", but only one person can own the original acetate. It'd still be worth something ; trading could still go on, I reckon.
Again.... that'd never work. But mostly because people are doubting and obtuse. And not because it's a bad idea.
A physical archive would never work. Things would get political and blood would get spilt.
Maybe a digital one would work out, but I highly doubt it'd be one that people could download from, willy nilly. Who'd pay for the bandwidth?
I always figured though, that if everyone uploaded everything, that QZ would be a sort of archive anyhow - more a sort of "Can someone reupload this?" archive if anything.
That would also never work. You'd get some clever son of a bitch refusing to upload one or two things, which would defeat the purpose.
What'd be really nice is if everything was available in shitty quality, and then collectors/traders could merely squabble over the actual discs/reels/tapes themselves. A thousand people could download "Hangman(Studio).mp3", but only one person can own the original acetate. It'd still be worth something ; trading could still go on, I reckon.
Again.... that'd never work. But mostly because people are doubting and obtuse. And not because it's a bad idea.
I still don't get the greed over a single song. Sure I understand that money is an issue. But then again if you put for example Golder's Green online for a certain amount of money, the owner would still get profit from it.
For example, you bought Golder's green for roughly 50 dollars, put it on sale for 15 euros.. a 100 people pay for it.. your reward 1450 dollars.
For example, you bought Golder's green for roughly 50 dollars, put it on sale for 15 euros.. a 100 people pay for it.. your reward 1450 dollars.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Leaky Luke wrote: [/QUOTENAME]wait I said that wrong.. let's say that Michael Jackson has the right for the Beatles collection, he has the right to sell these items?
if so when collectors buy a queen product, are they allowed to share it with the rest of the world?[/QUOTE]
Depends on the terms of sale. If copyright is sold with the actual item you can. If not, you can't. This is pretty much the same for art (real expensive paintings are sold that way> no poster repros can be sold, and things like movies, manuscripts, photographs and so on) international intellectual property law can be can really restrictive sometimes.
if so when collectors buy a queen product, are they allowed to share it with the rest of the world?[/QUOTE]
Depends on the terms of sale. If copyright is sold with the actual item you can. If not, you can't. This is pretty much the same for art (real expensive paintings are sold that way> no poster repros can be sold, and things like movies, manuscripts, photographs and so on) international intellectual property law can be can really restrictive sometimes.