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Subject: Re: Audio Files

Author:
Scotty Boy

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Date Posted: 12:13:43 08/22/04 Sun
In reply to: Phil 's message, "Re: Audio Files" on 04:50:30 08/22/04 Sun

>>Just exploring the site today and I was just wondering
>>why there arent any audio files anymore? Is it
>>copyright infringement or something?
>>
>>Anyone care to shed any light on the matter
>>
>>--- Marty
>
>
>Yeah our good German friend Fred used to have a wee
>website called "Shot Of Rock" on which he would make
>available for download a couple of rare or unreleased
>Lizzy tracks a month.
>
>Doing nobody any harm, a public service if anything
>else.
>However the German authorities caught up with him and
>fined him several hundred euros. Threatened him with a
>further fine of thousands of euros if he continued!
>
>At the time we had a Lizzy gig from New York, USA,
>1978, up for free download but we pulled it in light
>of that.
>
>Also, even though it was free we got a complaint that
>the gig was not a "soundboard" recording as we had
>wrongly labelled it. It's a stonking gig, we made it
>available free, what more do people want?
>
>Whits that aw aboot?
>
>All in all we decided it wasn't worth it to risk it so
>the download was pulled and the page has been
>embarrasingly blank ever since.
>
>The gig is still available from your local dealer
>though. ;-)

What gig was it - by my local dealer you mean Paddy dont ya.

Well the thing about it was that if it was a copyright thingy or an authoratarian thing like it was there is a way around it. It was the downloading that they had the problem with. I think, but im not 100% sure, if you can make the tracks available to be listened to but not downloaded it is perfectly acceptable in the eyes of the law.

What do you think? - a nice little online "Lizzy Radio" could get around the problem nicely.

--- Marty

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Audio Files	paddy h	17:06:14 08/22/04 Sun
Re: Audio Files -- Scotty Boy, 19:25:00 08/23/04 Mon