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Originally Posted by SykkBoy2
Oh yeah, I agree
having been in the music promotion business, they are tough to deal with but just want to be paid like anyone else. My issue is I think they are still getting a little overzealous with prosecutions. To me, some 17 year old kid making a mix tape for his buddies is a far cry from a lab in China mass producing the latest Metallica album and selling it on the streets for a profit...
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I think that with the arrival of digital media and "perfect copy" methods, this went out the window. It use to take hours to make a single mix tape. Now with 52x burn CD drives, you can take existing files you have and bang out a disk in a very few minutes. In the past (and I am sure we all did it) we might have shared a mix tape with one or two friends (because by the third copy, it was unlistenable). Now this guy can just ask Nero to burn 20 copies, and he gets 20 absolutely perfect copies.
Worse? If each of his friends copies it 10 times for their friends, you now have 200 copies out there. Next level is 2000, 20,000, 200,000... 3 more iterations and everyone in the US has a copy - a PERFECT copy.
Overzealous may be a term to describe it, but in many cases, music copying is like a virus. If you don't shut it down early, everyone gets infected.