At 12:05 AM 3/12/2001, Jayson B. wrote:
and that in actually going to a club, fighting your way to the DJ
box >and managing to actually decipher the title of a rotating bit of
vinyl >you've put in enought work to earn the right to own it.
everyone, everyone, EVERYONE has the right to own that music, regardless
of trainspotting.
agreed. the question is, though, do you have the right to trainspot? i'd
think that's up to the dj.... i mean, if you want a track badly enough, you
can always hum the melody until you get home, then sing it into your mic,
and post the url to the .mp3 of your drunken drooling to 313 and bug
everyone about the awesome track you heard last night.
I can kind of understand that an insecure dj might want to hide a
super-cool track, but that still doesn't stop you from finding out what it
is. If the dj's got it, and it's not a dub plate or a hard-to-find-promo,
then you can guess that thousands of copies were stamped out, and all
you've got to do is find one.
Like someone said earlier, your forgetting that somebody WROTE that track
and i'm sure they would want people to hear it and own it.
Agreed, but the dj is doing them a favor by playing it... he's not
prohibiting the promotion of the track or anything like that, simply
promoting a nameless track, at that point. It's certainly not detrimental
to the track itself, when you consider that you'd never have even heard it
to want it had the dj not played it for you (assumming it's something
you've never heard before).
and maybe its just me, but that artist should have more control over who
*deserves* to own than a dj who wants to keep his records special.
Deserves is a funny word.
a dj is incapable of keeping his records special, unless access to them is
limited. a dj concealing the names of his records is not himself limiting
access to them in any way.
-j
PS: people who cover up or remove the labels for above reasons are wankers.
PPS: all your labels are belong to us
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