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Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse
Bootlegs are a fact of life, and people who bury their head in the sand about them are ostrich-izing (see what I did there?  ) themselves from reality. |
Oy.
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Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse
It's how you deal with them that counts.
The coolest way i've heard of dealing with illegal bootlegs was by Roy Orbisons estate.
They basically obtained the rights to the four best bootlegs, cleaned them up a little, and sold them as an authorised bootlegs box set.
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Frank Zappa did something similar, but one better, IMO. He hated bootleggers, although that didn't stop them. Anyway, he simply took their releases and copied them- sound issues, their artwork- everything, and released them as a series called "Beat the Boots". The beauty part was, the bootleggers couldn't say one word about it.