While I'm not talking to you specifically,...
That's cool, I'll answer anyway.
If the only bands that allowed open taping were The Backstreet Boys,NSYNC and Britney...and *every single other band* on the planet was "no taping" would all of these "morality police tapers" simply stop taping?
Well, they'd probably sell off their LD mics and M148s and other bulky gear. It might well be the death of open taping. Of course, while I don't care for any of those bands and evidently you don't either, that doesn't mean there aren't folks who genuinely do. It's a slippery slope if you think you can draw a clean line neatly separating all the bands that are worth taping and all the ones which aren't.
Or would they then only tape those shitty bands (because that's the only "bands" giving permission)??
Again, you're confusing taping ANYONE AND ENVERYONE who allows taping with only taping those taper-friendy bands you happen to like. Me, I mostly like taper-friendly bands and so I tape them openly, I also like some non-friendly bands and go see them anyway, and there are plenty of taper-friendly bands I don't care for and would never go see. I know folks who are more likely to give a new band a shot if they are taper friendly, but don't know anyone who will repeatedly tape someone they don't like.
or would they start stealth taping (because the preservation takes precedence) ??
For most big-time national acts, the "preservation takes precedence" argument is nonsense. Preserving for YOU maybe, preserving for history,
. Pretty much any big time band records every show themselves (or at least a few shows per tour, if they're one of those many bands who changes up nothing from night to night). So for example when I go see Springsteen, I'm not going to bother taping. There will be an official DVD at the end of the tour anyway.
For smaller bands, it would be a shame if none of their shows got recorded but does every single show need to be recorded? Meh. And for a smaller band, I find it a lot harder to use the excuse "it's my ticket and I paid for it and they're faceless rich bastards anyway" excuse. I tape a bunch of folks who aren't officially taper friendly, but I ask them directly for permission, they tell me what's cool and what's not, and I look them in the eye and agree to it (or the whole deal is off if they want some weird condition attached). I'm not going to "ask" someone, look him in the eye as he says no, and then do it anyway. YMMV.
Anyway, who's more into the music at a show: Someone who has their open rig dialed in to the extent that they press record, maybe double check levels once, and then walk away, or someone stealthing obsessing about every movement of their head and every glance from the ushers. Just so they can "preserve" a show that a paid professional is also recording to multitrack gear?
Look, I'm not saying you're evil if you stealth. I may have done it a time or two myself (to giant faceless entity bands). But you have no ground to be bashing "lifestyle tapers" or pretending what you do is somehow purer or better.