In a pre-millennium version of this board some of us started a CD circle and managed to
ship 10 CD’s back and forth across the Atlantic in 14 months. A second run with some people from the original circle and a bunch of people from the IRTrad mailing list was just finished in February with some 25 CD’s swapped around in less than a year. The last circle had a strong local emphasis with some great Irtrad bands from Spain, Italy, Brazil, Australia, US, Canada … that you won’t find on Amazon or Green Linnet. It all worked really smooth and was a lot of fun.
During the discussions to start new CD swapping circle someone suggested to speed things up a bit by using the available information technology and set up a Direct Connect Hub. However, there are some legal aspects of this action that seems a bit dim. As far as I can tell, there are no legal restrictions for a book or CD’ circle among a “small” group of friends. Nor should it be any problems to host a Hub to connect people on the internet. So it all comes down to what each individual want to share on his/hers HD. I’m no legal expert, but if one would restrict the number of people that could access the Hub it should be comparable to a book circle, at least to my opinion. I guess I need to give this some more thought, any suggestions or opinions appreciated.
If you already know of a Dc Hub for IrlTrad (world, folk, whistle, flute) plz let the rest of us in on it.
Cheers!
/MarcusR