Just purchased a S/H LP and one of the discs has this sleeve. It brought back happy memories...
Oh yes...
But i would like to change the title for this: 'did i helped to murder big labels profits' 🙂
The answer is yes ( but i bought all albums published by small artists/labels when i had more incomes).
It obviously didn't murdered music:
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...oo-much-music-being-made-way-too-much.398200/
But i would like to change the title for this: 'did i helped to murder big labels profits' 🙂
The answer is yes ( but i bought all albums published by small artists/labels when i had more incomes).
It obviously didn't murdered music:
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...oo-much-music-being-made-way-too-much.398200/
"HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC" should actually read "HOME TAPING IS SKILL IN MUSIC"! 📼
Dead Kennedys mocked the anti-taping campaign on side two of the cassette of their new album, In God We Trust, Inc.
Actually you were/are allowed to make a tape copy (and also a CD backup, a PC audio file) for personal use, unless you lend it or sell it.
The adding of "AND IT'S ILLEGAL" by the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) was rather cheeky, because the laws around a consumer's use of bought music in the early eighties were ambiguous.
I've tried to find the current UK laws, but so far have only come up with those applying in New Zealand!
https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/copyright-law#:~:text=A recent amendment to the Copyright Act means,can only make one copy on recordable CDs.
I've tried to find the current UK laws, but so far have only come up with those applying in New Zealand!
https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/copyright-law#:~:text=A recent amendment to the Copyright Act means,can only make one copy on recordable CDs.
Note that the BPI campaign took place in the early eighties before the advent of CDs and the widespread use of PC audio files.
The campaign was instigated in the cassette era after the introduction of twin cassette decks to the UK in 1981 made the duplication of the popular music carrier exceptionally easy.
No we didn’t. It is the industry itself and the business model that are not of this time. Besides that the idea to have to pay for the copious amount of new music and maybe like 10% after filtering makes it an awkward and inefficient expensive hobby (when done as the industry wants us to).
Much new music would stay largely unheard if there was no piracy.
No mercy for the industry but more focus on how to make a working income model for the average artist.
Much new music would stay largely unheard if there was no piracy.
No mercy for the industry but more focus on how to make a working income model for the average artist.
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sure, and we stole that logo also for our anarchopunk organisation that organised illigal raves and political actions and so about 20-25 years ago ... 🙂. In the meantime the organisation disbanded and split up in other units...
Yeah, the argument was based on "every time someone tapes something a sale is lost", and based on cassette sales - clearly spurious.
If it were illegal, why do they put a LINE INPUT on every cassette tape recorder? A MICROPHONE INPUT were all that needed to prevent piracy.
The laws of music copyright do not extend to dictating the types of recording facilities on a tape recorder.
And the manufacturers were keen to sell their cassette recorders so included all the facilities.
And the manufacturers were keen to sell their cassette recorders so included all the facilities.
I almost buy no music, I usually listen to it on youtube.
The price is putting up with endless adverts.
The price is putting up with endless adverts.
In the days of yore the first time I played a new LP I was taping it. I subsequently listened to the tape to save wear on the LP. This also gave me a copy for the car, the workplace and the campsite. Once Dolby C was broadly adopted I used it. That was nice. As a result I have hundreds of LP's with one play on them. The very best thing though was that if I used 90 minute blanks I could fit two whole albums on one tape and didn't have to get up off my butt and flip the record. An added bonus came with the advent of auto-reverse decks. 90 minutes is the perfect nap! Who ever said laziness is not motivational?
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IIRC, the main markets for pirated cassettes were not in the USA and Europe, but Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. The vast majority of sales there were illegal tapes.
I'd imagine it would almost immediately have generated line output to microphone input devices to work around that restriction 🙂
It wasn't people home taping, it was the criminals running banks of duplicating machines who were copying officially released cassettes. But going after them was too much like hard work, while pointless harassment of members of the public based off doubtful potential sales statistics was much much easier.