Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] Trading materials ... was "Bootlegs"
From: RM
Date: 30/09/2008, 11:01 am
To: yveslefloch
CC: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au

Hi,
Welcome to Powderworks.

This is not a bootleg list.  If it becomes one, that activity will be closed down and someone else can take the legal risks of running such a thing somewhere else.
There are numerous music industry insiders on this list.  If you announce that you are a bootlegger, you are painting a target on yourself.  A laser-guided missile target.
This is a list for discussing and tracking the life and times of Midnight Oil, the band and the individuals who were in it, and finding out what happened, what was available, and what anything means or might have meant (about MO songs or from a MO perspective).

That said, you may get some replies off list about your request.  Sometimes people trade recordings of live shows that are/were not available under any commercial arrangement.  The legality of that has been agonized over and never resolved, even with ambiguous comments from the band members themselves.  Trading commercial materials is considered a contraband topic on this list.  Trading non-commercial materials is considered to be "at individuals' own risk".  If we ever get a clarification from the industry, we will act on it to the best of our ability.

Numerous people on this list have prized recordings of live shows, some of them from insiders, some from audience tapes.  I'm not sure if that is what you were talking about. Perhaps you can clarify?

RM


yveslefloch wrote:
Hello,

i would like to know how it is possible to find bootlegs from Midnight oil. Here in France, it is not easy to find something about my favourite band.
thanks a lot for your answers.
Yves