So I Just Read "Throwing Away Most of My Music

I concur with D-Jam…The law is the law and the courts have been pretty clear about this. That being said, I am not an anti-piracy advocate. I don’t go out and search for torrent sites and try to download entire discographies and what not. However at the same time, if a friend offered me a few tracks or if I have a few tracks that I think somebody might really did or can use then I will share. Like D-Jam said…its one thing to share a few songs here & there with friends its another to sell an entire copy of your hard drive to the highest bidder.

I’ve copied loads of tracks of my mate in the past, but then this year I’ve deleted them all, why because my music collection should be mine that I’ve built up which reflects my taste and feeling. I want my sets to reflect me not a carbon copy of someone else. Also I found I literally didn’t have the time to go through all that I copied with the new stuff flooding me over.

Haroon K, post: 3170 wrote: I’ve copied loads of tracks of my mate in the past, but then this year I’ve deleted them all, why because my music collection should be mine that I’ve built up which reflects my taste and feeling. I want my sets to reflect me not a carbon copy of someone else. Also I found I literally didn’t have the time to go through all that I copied with the new stuff flooding me over.

My Nephew gave me copies of 12 of his Favourite Tracks on MP3; and as a Present (and an Experiment for Myself); I thought I would Mix them (whether I liked them or not); and the Mix came out Really Well; however; like you; that is as far as I wanted to take it; as these Tracks were ‘His Favourites Not Mine’; and as I didn’t want to Feel ‘Influenced’ by another; I have now Deleted them (although I have since Bought one of the Tracks as it was Brilliant :));
But when I began DJ’ing; the Law was that to even ‘Play’ a Track Live in a DJ Set (in front of an Audience) we had to Pay the Original Artist 4p (English Money); how that could ever be Enforced I don’t know; and I Never paid Anyone Anything; but with my Step-Father being a Member of the PRS (Performing Rights Society) he told me what the Law said; and that I should ‘Comply’ with its Regulations;
I Understand that there are New Laws now; and that ‘Someone’ should ‘Own a Licence’;

Benny Mackney, post: 3269 wrote: I know that a lot of artists would prefer that someone gets their music for free over someone never hearing it. I can’t remember the exact words, but Skrillex put in in a Facebook status on his page. Of course, he did encourage his fans to support him by buying the music.

I believe his exact quote was something like, “If you don’t want to spend the $15 dollars on the EP you can just torrent it. Of course I still appreciate it when the albums are paid for.” – again that’s from memory though.

Phil Morse, post: 3373 wrote: If someone gives you music that’s fine, but it’s wrong to assume they’re cool with it and take it anyway.

Yeah, definitely. I was just saying that despite all the legal mumbo-jumbo a lot of artists don’t really care, they just want people to enjoy the music. That said, it’s mostly run by labels now-a-days, and the labels do care because they’re after money. I still support my favourite artists though.

DJ GRE, post: 3354 wrote: I believe his exact quote was something like, “If you don’t want to spend the $15 dollars on the EP you can just torrent it. Of course I still appreciate it when the albums are paid for.” – again that’s from memory though.

That’s the one!

I got the best of both worlds with my system Smittten,
I will “folder” a selection of ” Similar” tunes , say for a 1 hour set ill add one and half hours worth – factoring on 3 to 4 minutes per choon, to a desktop new folder From out of my music partition.
Then i work out what i can do with that selection of choons and organise them in to a set. wheat gets seperated from chaffe…
But……

Mid set if some idea comes to me of a choon that will just fit, or, a request that will also fit, i can do a quick system wide search and quickly add it in to the set