I got a press release from Music & Arts recently, entitled "Hall of Shame". It concerns the CM industry at large, and so I feel compelled to share what I can with you. They (M&A) are imploring CM fans, stores, etc. not to purchase material from certain labels, citing them for flagrant copyright violation. (Due to industry positioning [read:my job] I am not at liberty to mention any names at this time.) They are apparently taking painstakingly and expensively remastered old recordings, bootlegging them, and selling them under their own moniker at budget price. This is all (they say) being done flagrantly and aggressively. The result of this of course is undermining the smallish labels who go through much trouble and much money to bring us these recordings. Has anyone any experience with this? I thought this was terribly interesting. It seems in our (CM freaks) collective best interest to keep alive those small labels going through all the trouble to bring us these rare old recordings in the first place, even though the pirated copies may be cheaper. Transfer guys, I understand, don't come cheap. And small labels' already precarious economic niches are being threatened. Its not the big faceless corporations that are threatened here, folks. I am extremely curious to hear what y'all have to say about this. Bob K. [You can read all about this at the M&A website, or at Mark Obert-Thorn's (THE Transfer Guy) website, both listed at Classical Net. -Dave]