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I just posted this on another forum, so it's slightly out of context, but it applies to this dicussion. it was in response to a post by a canadian producer, DJ alucard. Excellent tracks and remixes, really nice guy too. anyway, he was saying something about how it was good that a popular mp3 site got shut down, and i agreed that it was good they closed the mp3 portion, but not the other site.
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Regardless of the law, i think sharing mp3s is a GOOD thing. Personally, i'd never heard of DJ alucard, and i'm glad i did. if your songs get pressed on vinyl, then i will buy them. I would NEVER burn your stuff to CDR and spin it to a crowd, unless of course, i had no other way to drop the track.
your point of "if you don't have the equipment, then don't play" is a good one. I bought the equipment, two tech 12s and a mixer, cuz i love this music. I'm a vinyl addict, i can't stop buying them, and i don't even have CD decks. However, some tracks are IMPOSSIBLE to get on vinyl. either they have never been released, or they only had 100 copies pressed and they go for thousands of dollars on ebay or whatever. Or maybe your own fresh track you just finished that afternoon, burned to CD and played that night at a rave. for these, i believe it is OK to play a burned CD.
As for your contention about the 30% of people that steal music, i'd say your probably right, in fact, it could be as low as 10% or even lower. whatever the case, i am in that percentile.
now, consider this. imagine mp3 downloading was completely eliminated (this will never happen, but just for arguments sake, imagine it)
now, that 70% of people that steal music, would be out of luck, and would have none. but those people are leechers, and wouldn't buy it anyway, they just take it cuz it's free. so the record industry loses nothing.
but, those 30% that preview, then buy, would NOT be buying any more! so, the record industry is killing their sales!
Personally, i've bought only a handfull of vinyls that i had never heard before. and most of them SUCK. So i stopped. now i preview the track. regardless of if it's in a live set, a radio mix, a full rip mp3, a crappy only-djs.com preview, i ain't buying without listening!
Who's fault is mp3? the RECORD LABELS. those slimy bastards that sit in their suits and manage talented artists like yourselves, and rake in the cash riding someone elses coattails. it's they're releases of 45 minute "albums" with one good track and eight shit ones, no liner notes whatsoever, and not even well mastered disks, that caused this. then they charge $25, with $0.70 going to packaging and production, $0.30 going to the author of the tune, and $24 going to the labels pocket. This is what caused mp3, and the rise of napster, soulseek, kazzaa, morpheus et al.
and, they will NEVER stop it now. it's like the mythical hydra, cut off one head, and the other 9 will spring forth. the mp3 distribution model is out there, in the minds of millions if not billions. they can never kill it now.
I have further thoughs on this, i will elaborate later, i am at work now.
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and so do most bar djs where i come from.
