martin bates wrote:
It's never clear who "they" are....but whilst the Lewis' can't influence whoever puts out a bootleg ,perhaps they expect better from their own.
Brasstacks certainly try & stop bootlegging -but as we all agreed over those LMS downloads,it's an impossible task. Jimmy Rip's pleas to fans was ignored & generally ridiculed - so it's not fair to say "they" do nothing about it.
Martin.
Well again, "they" (presumably "Tintacks") get it all wrong! A (free) advance download of one song from a forthcoming album will not take money away from Jerry, Jimmy or record companies, on the contrary! Most record companies deliberately leak out songs in advance to generate publicity.
The people they should be going after are those releasing CDs of 1989-1990 outtakes & DVDs of TV shows recorded from VHS tapes! These are making money from Jerry (as well as potentially ruin his reputation by releasing substandard product), not those that download a song or two in advance of an album, or try to make a charity calendar for the fans...& if you can't see the difference then you're not the intelligent guy I thought you were!
