I do find these albums frustrating from a classification (where does it go in the discography) point of view. They're not really pirates as they're not being sold as an alternative and unauthorised source for the music. At the same time, they're not counterfeits as we understand them. I'm leaning towards describing them as imitations made for the memorabilia market.
Thoughts anyone?
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shooky
Posted: 5th Mar 2013, 2:57 am
Posts: 2910Location: takasaki, japanJoined: 28th May, 2008
i doubt it's from argentina, surely that's just the bootlegger/counterfeiter/whatever putting some distance between himself and the product. i think they should be ignored entirely. they're little better than those awful framed CD covers IMO.
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cm01
Posted: 5th Mar 2013, 7:55 am
Posts: 868Joined: 9th Nov, 2011
"Control de derechos de autores" ! bloody Pirate
Bootlegger knowns that some people are looking for south America records or exotic records .They can customized a cover, put a real record or a pirate and say at the rest of the word : Look at this one ! never seen on ebay ! Sure that they are bootleggers which come here on this page and know perfectly the collectors market !
Now officially classified as ‘worthless’, not an item for the discography.
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maarten
Posted: 5th Mar 2013, 11:13 am
Site AdminPosts: 1657Location: Nijmegen, NetherlandsJoined: 5th Dec, 2007
It should be classified as a pirate, just as the round cover picture disc is for instance. This fits the bill, right?: "Unauthorised releases of officially released recordings."
My main concern is that they’re not the same as the pirates from the 70s and 80s produced in Taiwan and Korea. Those albums were made to compete for sales with the official releases and they weren’t illegal in the country of origin. Piracy is a little more complicated today of course, but it is still a term generally used to describe the illegal distribution of commercially available music. These albums are something else?
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maarten
Posted: 5th Mar 2013, 12:35 pm
Site AdminPosts: 1657Location: Nijmegen, NetherlandsJoined: 5th Dec, 2007
I don't really see it as different to be honest - still an illegitimate pressing of official material, without directly copying an official release.
bloody Pirate 
