[Rumori] more on street piracy (and w/respect to south america)

[Vicki Bennett]

Hiii

Steev, you're nearly in British timezone down there (waving).  The 
bootlegging thing is such a problem in Russia that they limit the 
amount of postage that you are allowed to send out of the country per 
day.  Was talking with Oleg from Solnze Records (home of Messer Chups 
etc) and he was explaining that this is why it can take a while to send 
you a pile of anything, because you have to divide it up over the week.

I didn't ask about the plumbing though.

Vicki

On 23 Jan 2004, at 13:47, Steev Hise wrote:

> hey all,
>
> hola, from Buenos Aires.
>
> i wish i had more time to keep up with email lists like rumori. this
> is the first time i´ve really had time to even skim the archive in 2
> months. very good to see the vibrant traffic, wow.
>
> i noticed the thread about the RIAA street vendor crackdowns and i´d
> like to make a comment.
>
> I´ve seen stats for years, and comments by analysts, that the real
> music  piracy problem is not the internet but bootleggers on the
> streets, especially in the 3rd world. same with movies.
> now that i´ve been in south america i can personally attest that its
> huge.  especially in brazil, and bolivia.  in street markets i saw
> blocks and blocks of nothing but guys selling CD-Rs, often with
> giant
> soundsystems blasting examples of their wares. its quite a sonic
> experience, getting that mix as you walk down the street. in sao
> paulo especially.  sometimes there are mp3 compilation discs for
> sale
> too (200 rock songs! 200 sambas!)  lots of software piracy on the
> streets, too, and in stores. games, Windows, etc.
>
> its interesting that in uruguay and argentina it doesnt appear to be
> as big of a thing.  this appears to correlate with bathroom
> technology, also, but, y´know, correlation != connection,
> neccesarily. hah.
>
> oh, while i´m writing - just picked up a cool compilation disc  in
> montevideo of dance tracks made from samples of tango music. not as
> cool or out as senor coconut, or as ironic, but still pretty
> interesting. (the samples are all cleared, from what i can tell in
> the liner notes) its called "bajo fondo tango club" - literally that
> means "low bottom tango club" ...
>
> oh, and speaking of cd-rs -  i took along 7 discs full of mp3s and
> an
> mp3 cd player, so i could carry more music in less space.  i thot i
> wsa being smart but the downside of this is in the heat, humidity,
> and compression of my pack, the discs have degraded pretty rapidly.
> the files toward the ends of all the discs now all sound a bit like
> Marcus Popp has had his way with them...
>
> ok, over and out....
>
> smh
>
>
> Steev Hise, At Large
> steev at detritus.net
> http://detritus.net/steev
>
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