From another forum where this was discussed (edited for bad language)

"FKDUP74"
**** em, tell em you lost the originals,
or they burned up, or your roomie stole em
you dont have to have proof of ****
they have to catch you actually ripping the music basically
or how else can they prove you ripped it?
seriously, this **** is gettin old

"RapFan"
you cud say u got mugged 1 night afta a gig and the ***in tossa stole the originals, or i broke em or somet. then if they think your lieing, say well i am rebuilding my collection, come and see my discs. (show them your small collection of real discs) and then offer them some beer ;)

oorrrr.... my answer wud be to..
when they come to the dj booth point behind them and scream WTF then leg it

im not really keen on the idea of pirate cd's & illegal mp3s. but not everyone can afford to own all the latest songs and the remixes...and without them - wudnt get people enjoying themselfs half so much.

Peach

HI MP3DJ,

Reading that post makes me..............

1) Glad I'm here

2) Glad I'm not there

3) There are Educationally Challanged people pretending to be DJ's.

I really could cry sometimes.

Howdy

Just to insert my own 2p worth...

Any DJ who can't afford to buy CD's shouldn't be a DJ. It's a business like any other and should be treated as such. How would you view a garage who couldn't afford to buy in the supplies of deisil or petrol, it beggers belief.

Darren

Oh Dear, looks like the Schools are out for Xmas

If any of the 13 year old Authors who contributed to the above post on the "other" forum, just happen to wonder onto this forum by accident, please don't sign up - go back, quickly to Teen-DJs-R-US and don't come back!.

These are no doubt the ones responsible for the 7PM panic calls from clients who have been let down at the last minute because (1) Mummy and Daddy wouldn't let their little D.J's attend, or (2) S-Club are playing at the local town hall.

I really feel physically sick to be sharing the industry with morons who can't string together a coherent and constructive post, and who's attitude clearly is so out of whack that they should be considering therapy let alone "advising" others. I am really concerned, MP3DJ, that you feel that this post would be welcome here! do you really feel that

Taken from a newspaper article....


KARAOKE DJs have been warned over CD piracy which could land them in jail.
The joint alert by Hartlepool Borough Council trading standards department and an industry watchdog comes as a local DJ has £5,000 worth of counterfeit CDs seized.

Gen Stenberg, of the Public Performance Music Partnership, which represents the DJ products industry believes such piracy is costing millions of pounds. He says fake karaoke video CDs and hit compilation CDs are widespread in pubs and clubs - and those caught with the illegal music could face up to 10 years in prison. The legal versions cost around £20 but counterfeit versions are only for a fraction of that price. "We are running a high profile programme targeting DJs who everybody knows are using knock-off equipment," he said. "It is estimated that 60 to 70 per cent of the karaoke products in the UK are counterfeits. "The quality is often very poor and the image breaks on screen, it gives a bad impression of the karaoke industry as it is often done by people who don't look after their equipment and may have unsafe speakers or lights."

Mr Stenberg says new legislation introduced last year means anyone using counterfeit CDs, or allowing their premises to be used for the CDs to be played, can be prosecuted. "Any equipment involved in the playing and recording of these items can be seized. "We have been into places that have computers rigged up to MTV to produce CDs that haven't even reached the record shops. "If somebody is trying to go straight and buy the CDs rather than copying them and try to make a bit of extra money by doing karaoke, they can be undercut by someone who has cut their costs right down by copying them.

"It is also hitting disco shops because they were once selling hundreds of these CDs and now they are only selling two or three." He added that the illegal trade was also stopping the music Industry investing in new talent due to falling profits and hitting the pockets of performers playing on the karaoke and compilation CDs. Michael Welsh, the council's head of trading standards, confirmed around 200 CDs had been seized from a Hartlepool DJ, who has not been named, and the department was considering a prosecution He said: "For a small place, Hartlepool has a large leisure industry therefore we must protect both national and local businesses and stamp out rogue traders.

Reproduced with kind permission from The Hartlepool Mail

And people wonder why i live at the north pole?

The english language of some people, it is obvious to me that he missed a **** ****** out of the sentence.

ok, i think i will stop now. dont like the idea of "10 years inprison". how about rare remixes though? if i have the odd copid disc. where else can i get the cha cha slide from.

o well, thanks for the help. chucking the copid discs in the bin now.

Speaking for teenagers everywhere! Were not all like that PROMISE! there are SOME sensible ones about.

Hehehe!

Chris

Dont take this the rong ways but i think most people on here have tryed to think of every way under the sun to get round this sticky subject. What i've done is if im not sure i will buy the original simple as. No hassel nip in to HMV and they have most CD's and i beilve if they havent got it they will search for you. I no its an exspensive game but at the end of the day its ppl with copyed cds, ect who are going to lose out. Plus if they do randomly come to your gig and ask you about your cd's you havent got to worry all night about them turning up or even waste your energy running away

nobody ever answers this point...........

but every cd says not for commerical use... so are we not breaking some law anyway?????????????

this b****y anoys me ,when i first started the guy who i bought my gear from told me that everybody did it but after taking advise from a dj pal of mine i decided to start as i meant to go on.........LEGIT!.i dont have the best equipment in the world or the fullest diary,but i do have a wife who understands that all i earn from my gigs has to go on cd's and equipment,in short at the moment im doing it for love not money but rome wasnt built in a day.

i dont think for a moment that im the only one who is legit but it begs the question who hasnt got all the correct licenses or PAT or legal cd's and how could this be policed?

at least i can sleep soundly at night.

im not knocking anybody but to all the guys and girls who play by the rules.....GOOD ON YA!

Again, how many of these D.J's have also informed their favourite uncle at the Inland Revenue of their activities?.

Again once you get onto this subject it's never ending red tape, and although it won't make you a better D.J at least you can sleep at night!.

Ok, Ok, I'll say this only once......

Live Long and prosper!

mp3dj... you can get the cha cha slide (and with several versions of it) from www.cdnow.com.... you can even listen to it on line to ensure you have the version you want.

Lets face it - how many of our normal punters really want a "Rare" mix of anything... they usually want to know the version heard on the radio.

Anyway, all it takes to get hold of "hard to get hold of" discs is to spend a little time on the internet.. there are literaly 1000s of cd stores both here and abroad, who will happily sell you discs... I use the above and even with import duty from the US, find they are extremely competitively priced. A little time and effort on our part will usually get the legal format that you want.


By the way... the "other" forum?..... Cowboys R Us by any chance.... and I wonder how many of them actually earn a single penny from dj-ing.... walter mitty alive and well eh!

..that is the one I play all the time..... you will get it on the album aptly named "the cha cha slide"..... so it wont be difficult to get hold of... use the album name in your search and voila!

I know my uncle knows about my businesses so I can sleep at night (if I wasn't out working half of it)