i thin kthe main point with those sites is they completly revovled aroudn the distribution of whatever they were sharing ie. live sets. swamper has been very careful with stuff liek that on this site, which is mainy used for discussion of music.

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Originally posted by trance_n_dance Who cares. Drugs, pirating games/programs/movies and a lot more shit is illegal and that doesn't stop people . Making it illegal will just make it more fun to have.

hmmm being a bit arrogant aren't we?

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Originally posted by kentylad hmmm being a bit arrogant aren't we?

How so?

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Originally posted by trance_n_dance Who cares I don't visit this page for the music I visit it for the people (O.K and some tune reccomendations )

umm, i haven't been to that page in months, yet i care, because of that page the whole forums could be closed down for a few days, and i wouldn't be able to take that

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Originally posted by gallox A few points after reading this thread: 1) livesets are still copyrighted. The set itself is not copyrighted (unless its from a mix cd), but the individual songs are. Copyright is a complicated subject - too much to explain here and sufficient info on the web.

Take television for instance, a TV station has permission to broadcast a movie. This doesn't give you the legal right to tape this movie and then share it with 20,000 people. The same principle is true with music, radio stations pay royalties for the privilege. Just because the tunes are mixed and not played in full makes no difference as far as copyright is concerned.

People assume that because the recording industry has in the past turned a blind eye to liveset sharing that it's a legal right. It's not, it's just tolerated.

but why are the tracklistings pages down the racklistings doesn't contain copyright or something

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tracklistings.org is still....last I checked. I thought it was ineptude why it has not been updated in months. There are other essential mix tracklist pages.

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What about private mixes released as promo? Like the mixes from Kuffdam, Substance, Gemini... which are available on their websites...

Are they illegal, too? (no difference to livesets in my opinion)

technofan

i don't know about these mixes - but if they contain records to which the people offering the download do not own the copyright then officially it is not allowed.

gallox

There is definitely no legal justification for closing down a site with only tracklistings, not actually livesets. Probably the people running the site were threatened with a lawsuit, and backed off, although they could have won if it actually went to court (but it would have cost them $$ to pay for their defense).

Alternately it could have been the hosting company that was threatened, and it was easier for them to just take the page offline than to bother dealing with the legal issues behind it.