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I'm in panama city beach at the holiday inn sunspree resort this week. There's a DJ, who was also here last year. I take he's the main guy from year to year as he's on several pieces of promo material. He's doing a poolside thing, playing off a laptop and has a desktop that he uses to burn free CDs for the guests (he gave us one last year).

Yea, I know it's commonplace but still kinda tweaks me as he's obviously pirating material. Nothing much to say about it but....why?
 
An easy, quick giveaway for him, at the price of a blank CD- what could be cheaper? I guess that since he's playing a hotel- essentially private property, he has less chance of getting caught than in a public bar venue? Just thinking out loud....
 
I used to give the bride and groom a CD of their songs. I burned it for MY use during the event. For the longest time I never saw the problem with doing it. Good thing I went digital and stopped. But yeah, what are the chances they'll get caught. and IF they get caught, what are the chances someone would pursue it all the way to a courtroom. How much money could they make off a a guy who spins at a hotel pool?
 
What's the point? The kids can't play them in their iphones and the old folks can't play them in their cassette players.
I would say he's just trying to get rid of the damn things. I have stacks of them that I will never use.
 
As far as anyone pursuing it, I don't think anyone will. Someone giving away a cd here and there is way down the list for the people that care. They are much more concerned about the people sharing, or uploading thousands of songs.....or making massive copies of CDs and selling them.
Kind of like the FBI going after shoplifters. Shoplifting is still a crime, just not a priority for them.

It still wrong, but not a big deal. But if someone handed me a CD today, I would say, "No, thank you". I just feel there would be very few people today that would see it as any value.
 
Ausumm said:
How much money could they make off a a guy who spins at a hotel pool?
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Not much. But from his employer? Holiday Inn? A boatload.


Scott Hanna said:
It still wrong, but not a big deal. But if someone handed me a CD today, I would say, "No, thank you".
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I would say, "Don't you know that's illegal?"
 
I believe CD's will be a bygone format in a few years - maybe less then five.

Stores like Best Buy, Target and Walmart are giving much less space to CD's and more to DVD's and Blu Ray's.

And with flash drives becoming dirt cheap with 8gb capacity and more, I can see a DVD or CD drive being an add on instead of a standard when buying a new computer.

To the many here who are still CD based, please don't be offended at my opinion...
 
Hank Davidson said:
What's the point? The kids can't play them in their iphones and the old folks can't play them in their cassette players.
I would say he's just trying to get rid of the damn things. I have stacks of them that I will never use.
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Too funny - but, so true!
 
dunlopj said:
I believe CD's will be a bygone format in a few years - maybe less then five.

Stores like Best Buy, Target and Walmart are giving much less space to CD's and more to DVD's and Blu Ray's.

And with flash drives becoming dirt cheap with 8gb capacity and more, I can see a DVD or CD drive being an add on instead of a standard when buying a new computer.
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That's pretty much what I see, although I think there wil still be a need for optical (CD/DVD) drives in computers for a while to come. It is still the best way to securely archive and restore data and media files. I know the world is backing up to "the cloud" but, the cloud evaporates in the wake of any kind of EMP, and it is always a remote source that requires an intermediate network.

Client's for the most part provide their own media on flash drives and iPods. I can't rememebr the last time someone handed me a CD or DVD.
 
dunlopj said:
I believe CD's will be a bygone format in a few years - maybe less then five.

Stores like Best Buy, Target and Walmart are giving much less space to CD's and more to DVD's and Blu Ray's.

And with flash drives becoming dirt cheap with 8gb capacity and more, I can see a DVD or CD drive being an add on instead of a standard when buying a new computer.

To the many here who are still CD based, please don't be offended at my opinion...
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No offense taken and for computers, the time is coming for cds. For music, well let's just say that they're still pressing new vinyl and that format was supposedly dead decades ago.
 
DJ J Mac said:
Let's just say that they're still pressing new vinyl and that format was supposedly dead decades ago.
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Mac. a very good point! I love having a few dozen old albums hanging on my office walls as decorations. Can't really do that with CD's...
 
dunlopj said:
Mac. a very good point! I love having a few dozen old albums hanging on my office walls as decorations. Can't really do that with CD's...
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True, the one part of vinyl that did die when the cd came about was the album art...now that was some cool stuff.
 
DJ J Mac said:
For music, well let's just say that they're still pressing new vinyl and that format was supposedly dead decades ago.
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Vinyl? Hell, they're still making 8 track!

Cheap Trick anyone?
 
just take a copy of the CD for reference

put all his details on the CD or paper provided
then send it of to the RIAA and saying he is selling this material
let them sort it out

(thats what I would do)

have a nice day
 
Dave Miller said:
Not much. But from his employer? Holiday Inn? A boatload.
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Do you think? Even if he is a private contractor?

Dave Miller said:
I would say, "Don't you know that's illegal?"
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DjDennis said:
just take a copy of the CD for reference

put all his details on the CD or paper provided
then send it of to the RIAA and saying he is selling this material
let them sort it out

(thats what I would do)

have a nice day
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That's more effort in both cases than I would care to put in to someone passing me a disc.

Like others have mentioned his odds of getting caught are somewhere between slim and none and slim is fading away. Odds are good even if reported they wouldn't even look at him. Now if he was selling them they may take issue
 
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