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devilgate at 01:09am on 19/05/2003
devilgate at 01:09am on 19/05/2003... and it still is.
(I've been drafting this piece for a while, and I've done as much as I'm going to . It's been a bugbear for a long time, and it's time to put it out there.)
Anyone who bought records during the eighties and probably early nineties, at least in the UK, will be familiar with the propaganda I'm referring to there. At some point during those years, the record companies, in their wisdom, decided that the common practice of people making tape copies of their friends' records (or records borrowed from libraries) was seriously eating into their profits, and had to be stamped out.
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(I've been drafting this piece for a while, and I've done as much as I'm going to . It's been a bugbear for a long time, and it's time to put it out there.)
Anyone who bought records during the eighties and probably early nineties, at least in the UK, will be familiar with the propaganda I'm referring to there. At some point during those years, the record companies, in their wisdom, decided that the common practice of people making tape copies of their friends' records (or records borrowed from libraries) was seriously eating into their profits, and had to be stamped out.
( Read more... )
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