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Originally Posted by robgomm
Artists complain an awful lot about losing money to piracy and unofficial video being taken. But would anyone agree with me that one of the things that could be done very easily is to release the board tapes they make at every show?
They could do this so easily as for example Meat has said many times he listens to the tapes after every show of his. When an artist does a show, if they made the board tape of the show available at say £5 for each show that would net them quite a bit of money. And it would negate the need for people to video and record the show and we wouldn't get the poor quality stuff being uploaded to youtube. It could even reinvigorate the music industry as a whole to some extent.
Just an idea?
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It's an excellent idea.
(I can say that because I posted something very much the same on a convo many moons ago
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The benefits (IMO) are, as you say, less bootlegs and amateur footage on camera phones and Meat would make a pretty pennt from it.
Also the fans get what they want, including official releases of concerts you yourself attended. That would be pretty great.
Everyone would be happy.
But this is more on bootleging stuff that is not available elsewhere, while I believe the convo is more inclined towards the illegal downloading of officially released albums
