Julian Dyer wrote in 060702 MMDigest:

> It's interesting that a perception has built up that somehow there
> is a feeling of antipathy to scanning.  Other than a tiny number
> of well-connected highly vocal individuals with their own personal
> agendas I don't think this is the case, or ever has been.

You are quite wrong here.  If you look into the highly productive crank
organ roll market, you will find that there are individuals who try to
earn money by simply selling more rolls.  Not being good arrangers,
they try to use modern technologies like scanning, but also conversion
of (non-organ) MIDI files downloaded from the Internet or simply getting
hold of others' arranged MIDI files.

I know this is a harsh accusation, and I won't go the long way to
prove this, let alone tell any names, but simply claiming that this is
not a problem is too simple.  I have no knowledge about the piano roll
or other roll markets, so I cannot and will not, of course, make such
a claim there.

Regards
Harald M. Mueller