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How would you distinguish a performance based on the public-domain Bach-Gesselshaft Ausgabe from one from a different score? Also I don't think Sony prints edi

• mirimir 8y ago
  That came up in a recent thread about this issue. As I recall, someone claimed that expert listeners can tell what score was used.
  • zentiggr 8y ago
    Experts supposedly could tell expensive wines from table wines... this doesn't pass muster for me anymore either. <rant>I'm getting to the crotchety old man stance of - drop copyrights, drop patents, everyone gets paid for [a live performance|first sale of a physical object] and screw all this secondary income bullshit. None of it makes sense and it leaves too many openings for pirates/scumbags/greed to suck money out of the public. </rant>
    • mirimir 8y ago
      There's certainly a strong argument for rolling back all the extensions and expansions for patents, copyrights and trademarks, which have been rammed through over the past few decades, by exploitative rights holders. The alternative is just to ignore it all, and use adequate OPSEC to avoid prosecution. If the system is so totally dominated by monied interests that there's no hope for relief, what else can we do? Just declare independence, and let them pound sand. China and Russia have at times done that, more or less. And we can create our own overlay Internet that can't be coerced or taken down. Or at least, can't be taken down without unacceptable consequences for the commercial Internet. If it comes down to it, overlay routers can spread as malware, and use covert channels, hidden in HD video etc.