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Originally posted by DJ Shibby Not our beloved underground dance producers and DJs, who do it for love of the sound!!

you'd be surprised :/

Filesharing was really (sarcasm coming) hard for people who get paid shitloads to play other peoples' records, while being thought of as a God to naive club goers; while most people would give their left nut to be able to get paid to be a deejay and worshipped as such.......what a world we live in

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Originally posted by torontotrance Filesharing was really (sarcasm coming) hard for people who get paid shitloads to play other peoples' records, while being thought of as a God to naive club goers; while most people would give their left nut to be able to get paid to be a deejay and worshipped as such.......what a world we live in

That's a good thing. It means that DJs will have to dig twice as hard.

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Originally posted by Ishkur Remember to add this part: For 50 years the music industry controlled what it wanted us to listen to, like, and know about in the world of music. Through carefully guarded bottlenecks, it disseminated music to a docile public in set quantities through the only mediums people could access: radio, television, newspaper. The problem with these mediums is that they are one-way. Those in control of them are equally in control of the minds and opinions of their listeners, watchers, and readers. The people had no feedback or choice. They were simply empty vessels to be filled. Filesharing and the internet destroys this dichotomy. It eliminates the bottlenecks, it levels the playing field, and it destroys all the barriers between composer and consumer. Now, the makers of music don't have to go through the industry to have their music heard, and the listeners of music don't have to go to the industry to get new and exciting forms of it. Through the two-way medium of the internet, the people are empowered; they have a voice, a cause, and they go where the music makes them happy, not where the industry tells them to spend their money. So you can see why the industry does not like file-sharing and the internet. It is a backdoor that bypasses their decades-old controlled bottleneck. It is a threat to their power, their position, and their ability to control the market of music consumption.

Wow Ishkur, thanks to that I think that I'm going to rewrite my paper about the positives of filesharing. Thanks a lot for the feedback guys

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Originally posted by Aquarian This genre wouldn't exist without file sharing.

+1

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Originally posted by Ishkur Remember to add this part: For 50 years the music industry controlled what it wanted us to listen to, like, and know about in the world of music. Through carefully guarded bottlenecks, it disseminated music to a docile public in set quantities through the only mediums people could access: radio, television, newspaper. The problem with these mediums is that they are one-way. Those in control of them are equally in control of the minds and opinions of their listeners, watchers, and readers. The people had no feedback or choice. They were simply empty vessels to be filled. Filesharing and the internet destroys this dichotomy. It eliminates the bottlenecks, it levels the playing field, and it destroys all the barriers between composer and consumer. Now, the makers of music don't have to go through the industry to have their music heard, and the listeners of music don't have to go to the industry to get new and exciting forms of it. Through the two-way medium of the internet, the people are empowered; they have a voice, a cause, and they go where the music makes them happy, not where the industry tells them to spend their money.

Well said. +1

Anyone who quits producing trance because of filesharing is producing for the wrong reason in the first place, IMO

You might wanna talk to DJ nemesis a bit more, he had a mix that owned napster back in the day, did anybody else get into trance as a result of downloading "alpha one" ?

Well, speaking entirely for myself, I got plenty of international DJ gigs from the sets I made available on napster way back. I've been numerous times to countries such as USA, Turkey, Egypt and Denmark (plus a bunch of one-times in other countries).

Of course, the noise from other bedroom DJs was much less back in those days....

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Originally posted by Aquarian Not just that, I mean that 99% of it's present audience would be listening to 50 cent and britney instead. It might still be there, but with far less producers and an almost insignificant ammount of people that appreciate them.

i would say you are correct with much of the Americas and Asia but not so in the UK. The rapid growth of trance in 1997-1999 largely pre-dated the growth of mass internet music downloading

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Originally posted by slinkyhead i would say you are correct with much of the Americas and Asia but not so in the UK. The rapid growth of trance in 1997-1999 largely pre-dated the growth of mass internet music downloading

Correct and superstar DJs selling out 30k+ capacity venues have been around since the early 90s at least. Tribal Gathering in the UK, MayDay in Germany and The Universe Rave (Switzerland??) are a few examples.

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