It makes perfect sense. SOMEBODY is allowed to buy A copy as in 1 hence the hype for exclusive ownership and price tag. YOU can hear it if the BUYER chooses to share freely. It was always sold as a 1 copy album. Why would u spend 5 mill for a general mass release item?
Now given that there was only 1 copy being sold ever where did fake controversy come from? The only question so far has been if when and how it will be heard.
You're not even listening to what people are saying.
Like I said, in the previous post, which you quoted, but apparently did not read:
You can only look at an ORIGINAL PAINTING in a museum. Yes.
However, you can BUY A COPY OF ANY ORIGINAL PAINTING - in painting form, in poster form, whatever - on the Internet or at several art stores. For just $20, you can have a copy of Starry Night, of your very own, to put up on your wall in house.
Now let's look at the Wu-Tang album. One person will own THE ORIGINAL.
But the COPY WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR ANYONE TO BUY.
Yes, the owner COULD give away for copies for free. But that is conjecture, and does not disprove anything that I am saying.
I really don't know how to dumb this down anymore. Are you trolling? Seriously....
Also, you insist in every post of yours that this 1 copy, 88 years thing "has been the plan the whole time," but that's not true at all. Cilvaringz was talking about this album on Wu-Corp for at least six years, and never said anything about it being 1 copy / 88 years until the Forbes article broke. They've changed their story even since then - first it was going to be available in museums for the public to hear, and the owner could distribute it commercially. Then they said, actually no, that's not going to happen. I don't understand why are you cheerleading so hard over this.