I think the tapers should get some respect and appreciation whatever one might think of their requests. They are actually doing something and helping fans enjoy the music. They also tend to be a little more informed on these issues.
Thanks Fatah. I think you hit on one solution when you suggested that you might make high quality mp3's yourself and release these along with the lossless files. Then people wouldn't havt the incentive to take the files you recorded and convert them anyway. And since it is ok for people to convert for their own use that means there are going to be lots of versions converted at different levels of quality. When people share their files unless they kepp their "converted for personal use" files in a separate folder they could share your files as mp3's without intentionally going against your requests, but just through carelessness.
SNS22, I don't think your issue is about quality of recordings, you just don't want someone to tell you what to do.
That's fine but I don't see the point in arguing with the people that take the risks, spend the money and the time to bring us these recordings.
Torrent downloaders are no more spyware than soulseek is. Anything you install on your computer can be uninstalled. (Except possibly AOL
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