How to capture the Roadburn Festival webcast to disk

[Colin Allen]

I will make one more comment on this thread before I back off it.  All of these arguments have been gone through in the past; there seemed to be certain reasons why the band were/are not willing to go down this road, none of which were, imho, either credible or rational.
   
  Anyway, didn't you know that all of the live recordings that I made during my time with the band were available for sale on my website at the time?;).
   
  You can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink.
   
  Colin

M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK> wrote:
  Colin Allen writes:

> Mike,
> It all sounds so easy in theory but it is about the people involved;
> if people do not understand, or are afraid of, the potential of
> technology or of the fans, they will not do it. I tried to make
> this happen in the past!

Maybe the band could just outsource the download side of things to the
fans through one of the fan websites. All the band need to do is supply
the recordings for download. If the band then don't see money coming in
then they could always pull the plug. 

The upside is that the band could see a continuous stream of income
which would help put on tours, festivals and finance new albums. The
downside is what? Someone, somewhere will do some home-taping? We
ourselves will spot any illicit Ebay trading, supposing that could
anyway be done in a way that could compete with reasonably priced
downloads. A record company will blanch at a deal? Even they know by
now that they have to download or die because that's what the folks who
pay their wages want.

There's a cash cow here that needs milking: make some Moosic guys!

FoFP