
Originally Posted by
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.