2nd everything...
good points for all sides...original artists should get payed, if it was a seminal tune instrumental in the early movement etc...some tunes and artists have reached a cult status years ago, plus it takes a lot of time searching for samples to pinch..that haven't already been taken.
Industry fat cats are awesome at making money , and seem to keep it all...although Nick Mason did takes his brand new Fezzla to the Top Gear track...and he did turn up in his helicopter...lol..wot a boy...so as long as uz not a total mong, lets hope that the innovator has won the battle against the machine, need a good lawyer..as Jig says...and really, as far as "bootlegging" goes, it's a good advert for the original artist, I doubt that runs are more than a few thousand at a time, even for the more successful ones, it's really hard to get an exact rip...even from DAT as your normally sourcing an original recording from a vinyl disc anyway...admitidly, if it were me, on my arse with a crack pipe hangin' out of my pocket...and my tune was getting booted around town...I would be peeved about it...it is a very, very good point S...but half of the music wouldn't have been made without the bootlegged copies of cubase...lol...maybe more like 93 onwards for this, but, point is that WE had no choice but to use ripped copies cos we had no money...can remember my mate JB taking his demo over to Liams house (Prod) ...on vapours, ran out of juice on the way back..sqeez'd every KB out of his old Akai s950...Roland D5 held together with tape!! he now sits back earning money from synth noises on Deal Or No Deal cos he was smart enough to play the industry money makers at their own game and saved them cash by charging them a lot for his synth patches...instead of a fkn fortune for library ones they were using, the lad also has the right attitude and as soon as he had made good...he obv bought a legal version of all the applicable software...he never would've got that break if he hadn't rellentlesly plugged away churning out dance tracks with Cubase2 and an Atari st..all for nothing aswell, just for the love of the scene .."one love".. it's what we preached, and I still have that phillsophy today. The only thing now that I find myself being picky with about bootlegs is the sound...and that is purely quality control talking, I got a promo of TC1992 Funky Guitar and the cut is nowhere near the finalized release, so I suppose we gotta take this into account aswell...when I was a kid...my clothes came from Bilston market or the army and navy shop, cosmic, punn, sport Billy...lol...thats my level of where I'm at with it all...nice to have a bit of gravy when ur older an can appreciate it more, but I put my whole life, heart and soul into making the movement a way of life, for me and all the peeps we on about, artists, lawyers, mccp , recreational hedonists , muzo's gallore...and y'know what...I'm taking whatever I want back from it...same goes for all the dedicated comunity on OSA...keepin' the faith alive.
