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Originally posted by Taike:
Diki, will all respect, but I find this hard to believe. If that were based on fact then no one would even bother attending concerts if they already had the CD, recorded it from the radio or heard the gig before. It would be the END of all live gigs. Fortunately people will always prefer to see live shows to merely listening to a recording. Think of it, artists would be unwilling to even have recordings, legal or illegal, for it would kill their live acts.

Taike


Well, you might want to consider how few live music gigs there are nowadays, compared to the days BEFORE high fidelity recording. Back then if you wanted to hear good music, you HAD to go out and hear it live. There were NO discos or raves or clubs with canned music of any kind. If there was music, there were musicians. If there was music in a restaurant, there was a band, or at least a pianist. How many restaurants do you know with canned music playing? Most of them...

There IS still a demand for live music, but it is nowhere near the level of the 20's and 30's...

And letting yourself get surreptitiously 'sampled' won't completely kill ALL your gigs. But we all know a club owner or MD somewhere who might try to save a BIT of money and play you occasionally rather than hire you, and ANY gig lost is money lost...

I've read several posts on this forum where members describe this happening, occasionally. So don't try to tell me it doesn't happen...

So try to imagine how you will feel WHEN it happens to you, and then think about this 'cloning' issue... Feels a bit different if YOU are the one losing money over it, doesn't it?
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