RANT on Piracy

[Finnish_Fox]

people didnt then take a cassette to a club, dj with it and make money.

Are you sure about this? I wouldn't put it past some of the people out there.

[BuddyUK]

Times, they are a'changin'...

The scene, it is a'ruined

[SpeshulEd]

I wouldn't say the scene is ruined, just educate those in the scene.

Also, who cares about a "scene" anyway?!

[Finnish_Fox]

Also, who cares about a "scene" anyway?!

Drama queens?

[moyo wilde]

you're right speshul ed a lot of industries are going to have to change their business model. the big box stores and all brick and mortar shops actually are having a problem it is called showrooming i believe. it is when people go to the brick and mortar store to see different products, feel them, ask the salesperson questions. then they purchase on the internet.

[Dj_4-$hure]

One thing I don't get, and please explain to me...why do the same people that say don't pirate a song because the artist will make no money...true. But then when a dj ask you for the name of the track and you can't give it to them, because they gotta dig, and that song is all yours. Don't get me wrong I get that also, but aren't you in someway stopping the artist from earning money, and the ability for that person to share with others (purchase).

I have bought a lot of music, I have also pirated and these days a lot of those songs that I didn't buy, I now want to purchase because of audio quality. In the end of the day if you're serious about you're music, you'll do the right thing and purchase those tracks sooner or later. At least that's what I'm doing, so I believe pirating is good and bad, because it has enabled me to find new artist, purchase the songs i'm really interested in and the rest is garbage (to me).

I believe if you're a great artist you're gonna make it, one way or another. I think a lot of people get mad because they're now producing and think if they make it big, they don't want people not spending money on them due to this piracy deal. I remember hip hop artist use to give out their tapes for free, but now it's piracy.

-Daniel

[dlove]

And since we're on a DJ forum...what if I download a DJ mix with my new favorite song in it...the mix was not created by the original artist, but rather some random on this board. I don't buy that track because I can listen to it in the mix I just downloaded for free. So technically, I didn't help the artist at all...in fact, the DJ took money away from that artist. Yet here we are as DJ's constantly posting mixes full of others work on the Internet for free. Sure it's different than direct piracy, but if you're contributing to the artist losing money, isn't it somewhat the same thing?

if I'm the "random", I paid for the vinyl, and if you like a track I played, you can write it down from the tracklist provided & go and find it for yourself. That's what DJ's do.

[dlove]

I wouldn't say the scene is ruined, just educate those in the scene.

Also, who cares about a "scene" anyway?!

Those involved in it. And I'm all for 'from the mouths of babes', but I also believe in learning from elders. You want to "educate those in the scene", then have a little respect for what's gone before you, mate.

[dlove]

Drama queens?

Call me a drama queen if you want, but after 24 years on the scene, I've never known the young ones to be so loud, so ignorant or so big headed. It's all to do with this falsity of online 'personality' leaking out into real-life, believing the hype generated between peers, and includes ripping off stuff for free while forgetting where it came from, like it's an entitlement. You don't learn like that.

[dlove]

so tell me this, (someone who believes it's ok to take a track from a mixtape & make a 'remix')

What if the mixtape had no tracklist & you didn't know the riddm/song/artist? Would you still use it?