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First, note that I have not participated in the discussion you mentioned (I never use IRC).

I must quite bluntly say I am not very interested in making the VIPTRONIC project into a high-quality-standards, legally-clean, physically-released, money-involved kinda racket.
Of course, if other people want to make it happen, I have no reason to attempt to prevent it.

But let's review a few facts:

A. We had less than 100 downloads in two weeks.
This time, the torrent having accidentally been the only way to acquire the release, the stats are pretty accurate.
It's safe to assume the http mirrors had very few downloads, too.

Disregard entirely the fapis stats of the 1st homegrown viptronic album. It's almost only bots. I think it reported 300 "downloads" just in the last month.

I don't think we will find 100 vinly fetishists willing to drop money for this stuff.

B. If we remove illegal sampling and illegal covers (that are pretty much impossible to prosecute in free pseudonymous net releases) we'd axe tons of tracks from the previous releases.
For the last one, instances I either noticed or committed:

1. Hello - samples BENOIST (or was it someone else?) without his written consent
2. The Tanasinn Mansion (Shitty Amen Mix) - samples some anime, and uses the amen break (not that anyone ever paid to use that well-known sample).
3. Cool Jam - covers Parappa the Rapper for half its duration, then samples it for the whole second half.
4. ダヂクルのVIP伝説 - covers Daddy Cool
5. John Goodman really loves triangles - samples various sources, covers Ikaruga
6. The Free Software Song (Microsoft Songsmith mix) - samples rms, the performance used has an unclear copyright status
7. Cool Avenger - covers badly Road Avenger

C. The point of this release in my opinion is just to have fun and get some people who don't usually record music to attempt to do so.