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Originally Posted by stimpee
Bootleg distribution and discussions take place over at RTSR. Please make your requests over there. |
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Dirt 1: "Wow what a fantastic show"
Lots of Dirts: "Yeah"
Dirt 2: "Really great huh? Here are some photos"
Lots of Dirts: "Yeah wow thanks!"
Dirt 3: "Hey, I have even managed to grab a couple of chunks from the
official stream!" *
Lots of Dirts: "Wow that's really great! Thanks for those, man!"
Dirt 4: "Hey these are really cool - are we able to get any more of these?"
UberModeratur: "STOP ALL DISCUSSION NOW - ZIS IS NOT DE PLACE FOR DER DISCUSSIONING"
For goodness' sake, put the jackboots away, Stimps!
This was streamed free to the world! How on EARTH do you expect people not to talk about, and exchange clips from, this on here?
Maybe it is time for an open discussion about what does and does not qualify as a relevant topic on the UW fo.... but my understanding (and I think the majority of the people around here would concur with it) is that we don't discuss/condone/encourage ripping off the band through distributing commercial product. Anything else can be (and ought to be) discussed here if that is what people want. Otherwise, if we are to follow this extremist logic, people could no longer post YouTubes or photos from gigs either.
RTSR exists for the free trade of fan recordings. It is complementary to Dirty/DarkTrain.org, not a substitute for it.
There is doing the right thing - and stopping people from posting about ripping and exchanging officially-recorded material is absolutely the right thing to do.
Then there is over-zealousness, and this falls into that category, imo and just causes confusion. Ultimately, it may lead to alienation of Dirts who a) don't know what the precises "rules" are because they aren't written anywhere and appear arbitrary at best; and b) get fed up of being told off (and I used that term advisedly in view of the tone taken sometimes) when effectively they are just following the logic of a thread and haven't said or done anything wrong.
*i.e.
not bootleg