Prodigy breaks down what's cool and "un-cool" in terms of putting their material on Youtube
A massive pat on the head to all their fans, as Prodigy and their record label tell us how best to promote their album on youtube. In the same vein and as about as effective as those 'knock-off Nigel" adverts. A la "If you don't have a problem with the legal implication of piracy, then maybe you'll have a bigger problem with your peer group's perception (the man's perception dressed up as society perception) of piracy?"
"uncool"
(, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 13:50, Reply)
and Akira the Don's excellent video response here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLYdZFqT50Q
and more at www.akirathedon.com
(, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 13:52, Reply)
Irony???
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by WEB SHERIFF.
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redazril I LIKE DRUGS!, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:03,
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re upped
Problem using the Web Sheriff logo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7I3P0eDq5w
(, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 16:24, Reply)
So.. put simply
They are happy for people to post videos of ANY tracks from their old albums AND the two released tracks from the most current.
I think that's pretty flipping decent myself. Considering the number of artists feverishly clawing onto their entire back catalogues and getting bodies like the web sheriff to stamp all over anyone who posts even a snippet of a 10 year old track on you tube...
Meh, I find the whole web sherrif thing annoying as hell but in this case I reckon Joe publics getting a fair break and the band get to protect their most currently made work, so they can make a bit of cash of it (which lets face it is not unreasonable.
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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 14:11,
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Aye, I'll go with that
Shame they have to be so patronising about it though.
New album's ace by the way, even if I did commit the cardinal sin of buying it on iTunes.
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Dave McF wrote some words on, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 14:19,
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^this^
I think this is extremely reasonable.
All their doing is giving a little guidance so people don't then get shirty when stuff get's taken down and start calling the Prodge a bunch of sell out cunts.
Cos that's what'll happen
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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 14:22,
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Aye. Trent Reznor (he of Nine Inch nails fame)
has gone down a fairly similar route: Anyhting "old" you can more or less have and post as you wish, just please put your cash down for the new stuff"
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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 14:28,
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And then he gave away The Slip for free ;)
But I totally agree with what you said up there. I admit that I do torrent, but that is mainly due to a small income at the moment, and the fact that I have bought quite a lot of shit albums over the last 10 years on the basis of one single. I still buy CD's and Vinyl for stuff I like though. You can't beat a good physical collection :)
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:31,
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You know he also put up 400gigs worth of HD concert footage
from the last tour as well for fans to edit their own videos etc, right? If you're interested, there's loads of it on youtube and on the nin forums. Also, these guys are making what looks like an awesome live DVD for fans: thisoneisonus.org/
Also, you can get tons of official and fan remix mp3s off their website (including official releases Broken/Fixed etc)
The man is a modern day Robin Hood!
(, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:57, Reply)
Absolute hats off to them.
I think the vast majority of people who pirate know that it's 'technically' wrong but choose to overlook it. This gives a great "Meeting in the middle" and I'd be happy to do it for them.
I REALLY hope that this is the compromise that the music/recording/movie industry needs.
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Evil Prof. Pixel Masher I made this!, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 14:26,
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Much as I agree with what you say
and what they say as well,I can't help but find that video fairly patronising. It just comes off like a drug awareness video from school. And let's not forget that they were sued for using an unauthorised sample on their first single Charly.
This really doesn't sit well with their outlaw image.
(, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 14:58, Reply)
The point being that they can use YouTube's copyright tools
to discover what videos use their copyrighted content.
They can then have all clicks to those videos registered to them so that each play generate PRS monies (and google ads too if they wish) for them
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applehead herp derp, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:27,
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Websheriff?
Seriously?
Pfffffffffft
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Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 14:16,
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^This
Any fair claims Prodigy have made seem a little offset by Web Sheriff being absolute tossers. I like how they've disabled comments and forced the guy taking the piss out of them to remove his video. Shades of Prince there.
(, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 16:12, Reply)