From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] music storage
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 20:54:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK4xykWxU_ihUbGqZh7kPrBtg6ZVc58k-zOi1a+Am+c1g=fj2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff8bf94eeb12197bf6ce7599f7c5386b@mikro>
> so here's a question: was the pirating uniform? that is, did top 100 cds
> get pirated at the same rate as say the top 20000 - the top 100?
i would say it was uniform -- all musical tastes were covered from
obscure heavy metal to django reinhardt. pre-1990 there was a glut for
any good quality music in the eastern bloc and people would buy and
listen to anything. for example there was really no difference between
the presentation of an official early album of the red hot chili
peppers and a bootleg of a 1988 concert in front of thousand people.
it all went, but i'm sure people brought more choice stuff to the
west.
from around 1986 onward people started pirating via huge casette-copy
farms which were lower quality and were mostly for local market
consumption, but once they figured out the big money was in CDs the
big guys bought entire shop catalogues from the west en masse and
brought them over for duplication. for all intents and purposes the
big factory from the link above was a government operation. kids my
age back then with a little bit of corel draw skills were put in
sweatshops to take care of the cover art and off it went. people
hopped on busses west or east 3-day vacations with sacks full of CDs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-10 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-09 0:30 erik quanstrom
2013-12-09 0:39 ` Jacob Todd
2013-12-09 1:40 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 2:44 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-12-09 3:53 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 3:59 ` Jacob Todd
2013-12-09 3:59 ` Jacob Todd
2013-12-09 4:11 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 4:16 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-09 4:37 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 4:50 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-09 4:57 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 6:38 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-09 7:14 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-12-09 4:12 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-12-09 20:52 ` Steve Simon
2013-12-09 21:04 ` Steven Stallion
2013-12-09 22:13 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 22:18 ` Steven Stallion
2013-12-09 22:53 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 23:18 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-09 23:37 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 22:39 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-09 22:51 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 22:55 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2013-12-09 23:09 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-09 23:19 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 23:25 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-09 23:33 ` Jeff Sickel
2013-12-10 0:18 ` Matthew Veety
2013-12-09 22:49 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-10 0:20 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-10 0:24 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2013-12-10 0:26 ` Lee Fallat
2013-12-10 1:40 ` Steve Simon
2013-12-10 1:39 ` Steve Simon
2013-12-10 1:52 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-10 2:22 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-10 2:42 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-10 3:14 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-10 3:26 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-10 3:32 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-10 11:24 ` Nicolas Bercher
2013-12-10 3:39 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-10 3:54 ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2013-12-10 3:57 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-10 11:33 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-12-10 2:35 Winston Kodogo
2013-12-10 5:44 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-10 6:46 ` Jeff Sickel
2013-12-10 7:09 ` Conor Williams
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