Burn wrote:
Of course it is, bootlegs are illegal by essence and many bands are against them... so to avoid problem with some recording companies, please do not ask boots of other bands. Thanks
So, I must have missed something here. What other band(s) on this particular thread was mentioned? I know I made a mistake in diplomacy in another thread about what has been appearing on youtube.com, like Epica's Wacken concert 2009 and what I was wondering about was why the last rill ("Consign to Oblivion") was suspended half way through, if anyone knew why, etc. Was it a TV program/network that curtailed the concert, for instance? Whatever. But I hardly doubt that it is a crime to merely discuss bootlegs of this, that or whatever other band that has been around the past fifty years or so.
Then again, I know damn well there's at least 800 pages over on ioffer.com that register bootleg DVDs so I mean, really. As I stated before, the official DVDs I don't download from the Internet, etc., etc., etc. The DVDRIPs I don't cater to. If the recording companies wish to pursue criminal charges against people discussing them they ought to first go after the sites that offer them; at least the DVDRIPs on officially released materials. That I would understand; that's copyrighted material. All well and good. But DVDs of TV programs? Hell, they used to do that with VHS thirty years ago; as long as it was for your own personal, home use. No problem. Just set the timing devices and watch a repeat of the game, program, concert, whatever, after I get off work or vaction, whichever. If such conveniences were allowed then, in essence, we were all criminals then. They didn't throw everybody in jail that had a TV then, what's the difference now?