[Walrus]

Originally Posted by LambsWool

Ok, so, supposing somebody had managed to download that entire folder - all 100 gb worth - before it was removed and the ban was introduced, what do they do with it now? Not all of it was post-1978; there's some Lamb stuff in there and some stuff from 1973 so I suppose that could still be uploaded. But it seems that there's a bit of a quandary now, as there will be collectors who have what Concord now construe as being legally theirs, who would still want to share this material freely, rather than just hoard it or, even worse, want to charge other collectors for their ill-gotten gains.

Furthermore, some of the stuff is only available as a raw file and would need the talents and skills of collectors who are good at remastering, stem-splitting etc. Skills which are beyond my ken...if I even had the files in the first place. Which, of course, I don't

I have already remastered a couple of the shows and posted them to G101. I'd be happy to post them here or elsewhere where rules allow (I still don't see Phil/Genesis on the 'band restrictions' list here, but of course remasters are frowned upon for some reason) Hoping to work on some more over the next few months, I'll figure out a way to get them out there.

Meh, there's a statute of limitations on this stuff for me. How it's legally anyone's at this point is ridiculous, the band and their labels have had literal decades to release stuff from the vault, and instead put out redundant compilations or archival albums that were still of lesser sound quality than what bootleg collectors had. Moreover, these are straight soundboard tapes and not multitrack recordings, of which Genesis still has many in their vault that would be better than anything a mastering engineer could do with these (still excellent) straight board mixes. I mean, the lawyers can do their thing and technically be in the right, but it's pretty silly to sit on this great stuff for decades and then be all mad when suddenly it's out there because fans are still interested in it.