How to capture the Roadburn Festival webcast to disk

[Paul Mather]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 07:37 +0000, pete howe wrote:

> Yes,i find it a little ironic,after weeks of debating the best possible way 
> to get THIS FREE onto your cd/ipod/mp3 blah blah..note that this excellent 
> performance wasnt INTENDED for FREE download,especially as the hawks are 
> RELEASING THE WHOLE PERFORMANCE...OFFICIALLY.. on cd shortly.They state 
> quite clearly on their website about free downloading/bootlegging/unofficial 
> recording etc, and all you guys generally agreed on the ethics of this some 
> months back..,as the band DOES, at the end of the day, have to make money 
> .., and theres certainly no "download free here" button, because it wasnt 
> intended to be...
> I enjoy going to the site and listening to it..but as it cuts off halfway 
> through Hassan I Sahba..I think i'll show Dave and the guys some respect,and 
> wait and cough up the money when it comes out OFFICIALLY...
> I just hope i dont see "Roadburn Festival cd-(most of)" on EBAY shortly ;-)

Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence.  Instead of presuming people
just want to rip off the band, did you ever stop to think that people
might just want to have this Webcast in a format that is a bit easier to
listen to in a non-linear fashion, like being able arbitrarily to seek
backwards and forwards, or pause for more than just a short while?  Is
being able to jump to the start of "Lord of Light" to hear it again in
all its glory ripping off the band??  Get a grip!

Oh, and thanks also for the presumption that those who download this
stream won't also buy the official release when it comes out.  Kudos for
the extra hint at the end that people will flog it on eBay, too.

Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty?"  I guess it's out
of fashion...

Cheers,

Paul.
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