Man who made £1.2m from fake vinyl records caught out by Clash fan

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Man who made £1.2m from fake vinyl records caught out by Clash fan

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Any one on here the Clash fan ! For non Guardian readers www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/05/m ... -clash-fan

A belated further huge thank you to Marky Dread - as the years pile up and I'm fast heading for the maximum security care home I hope my hearing is one of the last faculties to go so I can continue to enjoy all of his fantastic work!

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Collecting and sharing live shows & rarities etc. created by fans for fans for free for all to enjoy is one thing, but profiting off of others creativity is another thing altogether.
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So the guy was out-and-out counterfeiting records? Ballsy as fuck and was just waiting to get caught. There is a huge moral chasm between pirating, where the copyright holder loses income, and counterfeiting, where the copyright holder loses income and someone else makes it.
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Maybe it was Cut the Crap he bought and the bad sound quality was actually the recording.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
05 Apr 2023, 3:07pm
Maybe it was Cut the Crap he bought and the bad sound quality was actually the recording.
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mcintyrepoet wrote:
05 Apr 2023, 12:15pm
Any one on here the Clash fan ! For non Guardian readers www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/05/m ... -clash-fan

A belated further huge thank you to Marky Dread - as the years pile up and I'm fast heading for the maximum security care home I hope my hearing is one of the last faculties to go so I can continue to enjoy all of his fantastic work!
:mrgreen:
I hope they play maximum rock n roll at the maximum care home.
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