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Posted by Alistair Hinton on March 4, 2007, 7:18 pm, in reply to "Re: Hatto? Ha!" If we have learned anything from this fiasco, it is that we cannot rely on any critic's expertise to detect fraudulent recordings! Certainly my buying habits have changed to the detriment of the music industry. At this point you should be thinking of ways to inspire consumer confidence rather than saying there is no way to ensure that the label on a cd represents fairly the recorded material. First of all, why would you expect a critic first and foremost to detect a fraudulent recording? To begin with, most recordings are not fraudulent and we should not allow the admittedly large-scale fraud committed by WB-C to encourge us to assume that such fraud is rife in the industry. Furthermore, a critic's principal duty is to report on what he/she hears rather than to detect wrongdoing in the representation of what is on the CD; OK, if the hackles of suspicion are aroused, such a critic might try discreetly to include some comment, but they'd have to be very careful to avoid legal action unless they had proof of fraud. Why should I "be thinking of ways to inspire consumer confidence rather than saying there is no way to ensure that the label on a cd represents fairly the recorded material" when there IS no way that one can do that? - if someone wants to commit such fraud, they will try to do it and it will be up to buyers and others to run it to earth; that said, if the product purchased, though fraudulently advertised and/or labelled, is nevertheless good, not everyone will necessarily regret having purchased that product. Best, Alistair
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Posted by Bunny on March 4, 2007, 5:47 pm, in reply to "Re: Hatto? Ha!"
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