Washington Post article on MoFi vs. Fremer vs. Esposito


Here's a link to a Washington Post article on the recent dustup with MoFi. The comments section (including posts by Michael Fremer) are interesting.

Disclaimer: This is a "public service announcement, a point Im adding since some forum members complained the last article I referenced here was "paywall protected", I'll note that, for those who are non-subscribers, free access to limited numbers of articles is available by registering (trade-off: The Post will deluge you with subscription offers)

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Showing 3 responses by tomcy6

What concerns me most if that some members dont seem to think MoFi did anything wrong.

I haven’t seen this opinion expressed much. I think that most people agree that MoFi did a real bad thing and I think that people have a valid reason to be angry with MoFi. I think that a little perspective is needed, though. We are lied to by people who want to sell us things all the time. Often these things have a much greater impact on our lives than a 4x DSD step in MoFi’s vinyl process.

We are frequently sold food and medicines that are terrible for our health, cars that manufacturers and dealers know have problems that they don’t disclose, premium priced shoes and clothing that are made by people making starvation wages under terrible working conditions, etc. Do I need to mention politicians and the news media?

I personally don’t want to see MoFi put out of business. A lawsuit would take years and would only benefit the lawyers. I think MoFi learned their lesson and I think that people can get their money back on the used market if they don’t want the LPs anymore. I haven’t seen a flood of MoFi vinyl hit the used market since the story broke.

Interesting article, @fstein

Well I dont think that stating the obvious that we are lied to on a regular basis changes things one iota. Some sort of weird relativism at work evidently. 

From my earlier post:

I think that most people agree that MoFi did a real bad thing and I think that people have a valid reason to be angry with MoFi. I think that a little perspective is needed, though. 

That's all I was saying.  Be angry but don't lose your mind.  And yes, I wish that people would save their outrage for things that really matter.  

You misunderstood me. What I meant was that when I look around, I see people getting angry about things that are not that important while being oblivious to very serious problems. For example, fentanyl is pouring into our country causing untold death and misery here and in Mexico, but it seems like very few people are concerned about it in the least. I would prefer that people direct more of their anger at that and less at MoFi, but each person is free to direct their anger wherever they want, of course..