{"id":695,"date":"2005-08-20T11:10:54","date_gmt":"2005-08-20T16:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=695"},"modified":"2005-08-20T11:10:54","modified_gmt":"2005-08-20T16:10:54","slug":"pirate-alert-from-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/pirate-alert-from-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate alert from 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Next time you&#8217;re out shopping for records or tapes &#8212; watch out for pirates. Not the kind with skull and crossbones and crusty cutlasses&#8211;watch out for music pirates. There are plenty of them around and, like their 18th Century colleagues, they&#8217;re breaking the law, to the tune of $200 million a year.&#8221; So begins the alert, the &#8220;Buyers Bulletin,&#8221; on the record sleeve of the Vassar Clements LP from 1974 that I was revisiting. Besides describing how to tell an official versus a pirated 8-track cartridge, we are treated to a tale of extra-legal and sociopathic behavior by the Killer Jerry Lee Lewis as he finds himself at a gas station in the south with rack of illegal 8 tracks as told by John Polk an RIAA investigator. It&#8217;s not clear what behavior is being celebrated as legal what which as morally wrong. Obviously the target is the right one. Massive amounts, allegedly, of 8 track tapes suddenly showing up for sale is definitely a negative market force, but then we have the Killer who smashes what he deems to be a rack of illegal tapes and drives off saying &#8220;Tell him &#8216;Killer&#8217; was here.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe confusion persists to this day. Bands and rappers are presented as outlaws up until there&#8217;s product involved. Then when the distribution systems fails and that structural hole is filled by entrepreneurs as indifferent to norms as the bands the name calling starts. And even then &#8220;Killer&#8221; is held up as an example of &#8220;taking the bull by the horns&#8221; &#8212; without irony.<br \/>\nThe confused message does not serve the industry well and worse for all of us, we have become numb to it after 30 years of handwaving.<br \/>\nI too oppose massive illegal file trading and the more harmful cousin counterfeit recordings, but clarity here is a persistant problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Next time you&#8217;re out shopping for records or tapes &#8212; watch out for pirates. Not the kind with skull and crossbones and crusty cutlasses&#8211;watch out for music pirates. There are plenty of them around and, like their 18th Century colleagues, they&#8217;re breaking the law, to the tune of $200 million a year.&#8221; So begins the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","category-information-commons","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}