D-Jam, post: 745 wrote: I’ve heard they’re also very hard on piracy, and some clubs even use a program to scan a DJ’s hard drive to make sure his music is legal.
How do they do that? And how the hell does that work? How do they tell legit copies apart from freebies (like Dodge & Fuski’s “Guettastep” that they released on their FB paage/MediaFire)? What if I bought a song legit but play the leaked version because I like it better (Like Skrillex’s First Of The Year).
Benny Mackney, post: 4983 wrote: How do they do that? And how the hell does that work? How do they tell legit copies apart from freebies (like Dodge & Fuski’s “Guettastep” that they released on their FB paage/MediaFire)? What if I bought a song legit but play the leaked version because I like it better (Like Skrillex’s First Of The Year).
I Understand that Files (wherever we Buy them from) are ‘Tagged’ in a way that we Cannot ‘Alter’ (in Properties);
So that if I Download a Track from YouTube; it is ‘Tagged’ in such a way that I am ‘Unable’ to Remove Its Source;
This is what they (the PRS Police) are ‘Scanning’ for;
If We have a Legitimate Copy of a Music File; that File will be ‘Tagged’ in such a way that it can be ‘Identified’ as a Legal File; and as such (with the Club Owners Licence) will mean that the Original Artist will get ‘Some Fee/Royalty’;
If we have Illegal Copies of Music on our Hard Drive; and it is Scanned by the PRS (or Whomever they may be); it is Their Legal Right (in Some Countries) to ‘Sieze’ Our Hard Drive; and Take It Away
I definitely took it for granted as a child. I didn’t realize how unique of an experience it was until I was about 14 years old and in a US high school where 90% of the class hadn’t even left the state before. Too concerned with playing Mega Man.
