I notice that on FM there are still quite a few pirate stations, but I would >imagine the whole idea is to make money, not like the old days.
For instance, there is one which spends more time plugging gigs like events
with live DJs and MCs, one supposes against dead ones, than playing actual >tracks, many of which seem to feature the F word a lot by rappers.
I don't know if this is widespread or whether I'm overly suspicious, as it
costs a tenner to get in for blokes but ladies get in free.
Is there a
shortage of girls, or is this some kind of code for working girls? One also >wonders whether it might be all about flogging recreational drugs.
I'd have thought a lot of this might have gone on line by now, as its more
difficult to police then.
I'm all for folk having fun, but I just got this nagging feeling of a sub
text involved in these gigs.
Brian
On Thu, 18 May 2023 10:15:26 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
<brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd have thought a lot of this might have gone on line by now, as its more >> difficult to police then.
I'm all for folk having fun, but I just got this nagging feeling of a sub
text involved in these gigs.
Brian
Gigs probably make money and a pirate radio station probably costs
next to nothing to run, so there may be no more to it than that.
On 18/05/2023 15:28, Scott wrote:
On Thu, 18 May 2023 10:15:26 +0100, "Brian Gaff"A lot of the DJs are doing the radio gig with no fee on the
<brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd have thought a lot of this might have gone on line by now, as its more >>> difficult to police then.
I'm all for folk having fun, but I just got this nagging feeling of a sub >>> text involved in these gigs.
Brian
Gigs probably make money and a pirate radio station probably costs
next to nothing to run, so there may be no more to it than that.
understanding that they will be allowed to plug their live gigs free of >charge.
The real adverts pay for the power, if they have to use their own, and
for the gear when it gets seized.
Royalties? What are they?
On Thu, 18 May 2023 17:00:40 +0100, John Williamson
The real adverts pay for the power, if they have to use their own, and
for the gear when it gets seized.
Is it an offence to advertise on a 'pirate' radio station as it was
for the real pirate stations under the Marine Offences Act?
On 18/05/2023 18:10, Scott wrote:
On Thu, 18 May 2023 17:00:40 +0100, John Williamson
The real adverts pay for the power, if they have to use their own, and
for the gear when it gets seized.
Is it an offence to advertise on a 'pirate' radio station as it was
for the real pirate stations under the Marine Offences Act?
OFCOM say yes.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/interference-enforcement/spectrum-offenc es/illegalbroadcast
On Thu, 18 May 2023 17:00:40 +0100, John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
On 18/05/2023 15:28, Scott wrote:
On Thu, 18 May 2023 10:15:26 +0100, "Brian Gaff"A lot of the DJs are doing the radio gig with no fee on the
<brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd have thought a lot of this might have gone on line by now, as its
more
difficult to police then.
I'm all for folk having fun, but I just got this nagging feeling of a
sub
text involved in these gigs.
Brian
Gigs probably make money and a pirate radio station probably costs
next to nothing to run, so there may be no more to it than that.
understanding that they will be allowed to plug their live gigs free of >>charge.
The real adverts pay for the power, if they have to use their own, and
for the gear when it gets seized.
Is it an offence to advertise on a 'pirate' radio station as it was
for the real pirate stations under the Marine Offences Act?
Royalties? What are they?
the same rut as home taping is wrong groove. I do sometimes wonder ho is >making money these days when a music subscription is cheaper than the cost
of going to a record shop and buying CDs etc.
I mean at 4.99 a month, I can grab what I want from Amazon quite easily. I
just wondered, for example who gets the money if I left there is noone quite >like Grandma by St Winifred school choir on continuous repeat while I was on >holiday...
Brian
In message <u4a61g$11msc$1@dont-email.me> at Sat, 20 May 2023 11:05:33,
Brian Gaff <brian1gaff@gmail.com> writes
[]
the same rut as home taping is wrong groove. I do sometimes wonder ho is >> making money these days when a music subscription is cheaper than the
cost
of going to a record shop and buying CDs etc.
Ah, but isn't a music subscription of limited duration - i. e. you can't
keep the downloads once you stop paying the sub.? (At least in theory;
I'm sure ignored in practice. Some such systems have software to prevent
you keeping, but again I'm sure plenty of people get round those.)
On 20/05/2023 20:20, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
In message <u4a61g$11msc$1@dont-email.me> at Sat, 20 May 2023 11:05:33,
Brian Gaff <brian1gaff@gmail.com> writes
[]
the same rut as home taping is wrong groove. I do sometimes wonder ho is >>> making money these days when a music subscription is cheaper than the
cost
of going to a record shop and buying CDs etc.
Ah, but isn't a music subscription of limited duration - i. e. you can't
keep the downloads once you stop paying the sub.? (At least in theory;
I'm sure ignored in practice. Some such systems have software to prevent
you keeping, but again I'm sure plenty of people get round those.)
Services like Spotify stream, you don't download, though there may be
third party products that enable it. It's like renting a radio to listen. Buying a song, whether on a physical medium or a sound file, is a
different matter, though there do appear to be some schemes where to originators are able to delete the files from your device.
--
Max Demian
Well it very much depends. I tend to feed my stereo from an analogue
source, so there is no reason I need to keep it if its DRM encoded. I can just record it.
I don't think I'd trust the likes of Apple and the others to always allow me to access my music. I came unstuck with this on Amazon when you could add to library, which now no longer seems to work having errors like There is nothing in your library, or I'm having difficulty accessing your library at the moment, please try later, or worse still, the stream dropping out in the middle of a long piece of music, and it returning to the start. Get no sense from the companies other than sorry, we will ive you xxx vouchers or some.
Its a bit like having a bad meal and then when you complain about it being given a free pass for another one.
Brian
Well it very much depends. I tend to feed my stereo from an analogue
source, so there is no reason I need to keep it if its DRM encoded. I can just record it.
I don't think I'd trust the likes of Apple and the others to always allow me to access my music. I came unstuck with this on Amazon when you could add to library, which now no longer seems to work having errors like There is nothing in your library, or I'm having difficulty accessing your library at the moment, please try later, or worse still, the stream dropping out in the middle of a long piece of music, and it returning to the start. Get no sense from the companies other than sorry, we will ive you xxx vouchers or some.
Its a bit like having a bad meal and then when you complain about it being given a free pass for another one.
Brian
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