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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2011 at 09:29

I've had a look at all three of those. I think they are all legitimately available in high street shops (in the case of the one added by mandi, probably an Italian Walmart). I don't think Rushfan4 and Snobb would have added albums which were not legitimately available.

I think the issue with these more to do with the licencing, they will have been released under some sort of licence not required arrangement. As has been said, there are a lot of that type of release scattered across the site, including the entire "Inside (band name) DVD series, which claims to "require complete artistic independence".
 
Bottom line is that while these releases are dubious, and do not from part of the official discography, I don' t think they are bootlegs in the traditional sense.
 
It's a topic worthy of discussion of course, but I personally think in these cases, there is enough legitimacy to their distribution to allow them to stay.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2011 at 09:25
A few suspicious Yes releases too, this one being the most obvious.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2011 at 07:59
Originally posted by NotAProghead NotAProghead wrote:

There are plenty of similar items on PA. Some of them are offered in respected music stores, it's not easy to prove that CD X and DVD Y are bootlegs.


Very true. That is why I started with Led Zeppelin, which are an easy case as their official discography is limited and very well known.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2011 at 07:51
There are plenty of similar items on PA. Some of them are offered in respected music stores, it's not easy to prove that CD X and DVD Y are bootlegs.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2011 at 07:31
I have bought the occasional bootleg many years ago.  I can't think of any that were really worth having.  Terminate them from this site with extreme prejudice!!!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2011 at 07:30
Indeed, if we start adding Led Zep bootlegs, we'll need a bigger web site.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2011 at 05:45
Good idea.

Well done that man!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2011 at 04:55
As we find bootlegs added to the database on a regular basis, I thought it would be good to have one dedicated thread to report them. Here's some Zeppelin bootlegs for starters:


http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=20108

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=24824

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=31071
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