Also from an interview with Mark from 2000
"Mark Knopfler has his own distinct opinion regarding the lawsuit intended by the music industry against Napster and the shops selling bootlegs: "I am against this lawsuit. It was said TV would be the end of cinema, it was said cassettes would kill records and CD burners would kill CDs, but that is not true. Technology will always progress. The only real danger comes from countries which practise industrial piracy. I have always encouraged recordings of my concerts. From the stage I had fun seeing all those little red lights of recorders and these microphones held by fans. That is no danger and even quite cool. Fans who buy bootlegs already own all the official albums anyway. They do us no harm and I find these raids against bootlegs shops ridiculous."
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Coffee; the industrial lubricant of society. I'm much too tired to imagine my toil without this potent tonic that so generously replenishes my efficacy.--TheWatchman
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