ATTN: DAVE the Drummer

[teknorich]

Even if we just download a live dj set, which we definitely ALL do here, that is very likely to be breach of copyright, as no royalties etc would have been paid for the copyright material, so we are all guilty.

I think people get all bent out of shape cos this fella is making profit from it, which is a bit hypocritical. Is his copyright breach worse than yours, cos he makes profit from it and you don't? Is that what it boils down to - money? Is it only morally wrong if someone makes $$$ from it?

I've got a whole bunch of Helter Skelter tape packs at home, for which the artists whose copyrighted records appear in the mixes would not have received a single penny in royalties, but nobody complains about that... (Sure, the club makes money which helps the scene, but the artists don't, so it is still breach of copyright).

It's a very grey area, and nobody comes out with a halo. If you wanna be totally by the book, then it seems any DJ set with copyrighted matertial in it being distributed without consent/royalties would be piracy, so we are all guilty. People want to make others seem more or less guilty than themselves, but at the end of the day a copyright breach is a copyright breach, however it is distributed and whether profit is made from it or not.

[basslinejunkie]

Even if we just download a live dj set, which we definitely ALL do here, that is very likely to be breach of copyright, as no royalties etc would have been paid for the copyright material, so we are all guilty.

I think people get all bent out of shape cos this fella is making profit from it, which is a bit hypocritical. Is his copyright breach worse than yours, cos he makes profit from it and you don't? Is that what it boils down to - money? Is it only morally wrong if someone makes $$$ from it?

I've got a whole bunch of Helter Skelter tape packs at home, for which the artists whose copyrighted records appear in the mixes would not have received a single penny in royalties, but nobody complains about that... (Sure, the club makes money which helps the scene, but the artists don't, so it is still breach of copyright).

It's a very grey area, and nobody comes out with a halo. If you wanna be totally by the book, then it seems any DJ set with copyrighted matertial in it being distributed without consent/royalties would be piracy, so we are all guilty. People want to make others seem more or less guilty than themselves, but at the end of the day a copyright breach is a copyright breach, however it is distributed and whether profit is made from it or not.

bingo.

[tonyc2002]

Even if we just download a live dj set, which we definitely ALL do here, that is very likely to be breach of copyright, as no royalties etc would have been paid for the copyright material, so we are all guilty.

I think people get all bent out of shape cos this fella is making profit from it, which is a bit hypocritical. Is his copyright breach worse than yours, cos he makes profit from it and you don't? Is that what it boils down to - money? Is it only morally wrong if someone makes $$$ from it?

I've got a whole bunch of Helter Skelter tape packs at home, for which the artists whose copyrighted records appear in the mixes would not have received a single penny in royalties, but nobody complains about that... (Sure, the club makes money which helps the scene, but the artists don't, so it is still breach of copyright).

It's a very grey area, and nobody comes out with a halo. If you wanna be totally by the book, then it seems any DJ set with copyrighted matertial in it being distributed without consent/royalties would be piracy, so we are all guilty. People want to make others seem more or less guilty than themselves, but at the end of the day a copyright breach is a copyright breach, however it is distributed and whether profit is made from it or not.

Yep, it all boils down to money.

If someone was making huge bucks from pirating someone else's stuff then it would be worth the copyright holder paying for a lawyer to screw them to the wall.

No one in their right mind though is going to fork out for expensive legal action when the compensation is going to be peanuts.

[NickyG]

Attention Dave (again).

The cheeky little bleeder is still flogging your sets on his website:

djsets.co.uk | Compilations > Techno, Minimal & Electro
djsets.co.uk | Compilations > D.A.V.E The Drummer

I literally cannot believe this guy, he really has turned plain old leeching into an artform. I see he has now taken down his Facebook page as well, maybe due to some unwanted attention.