[peel] Re: Festive 50 'Boxed Sets' on ebay - Not what it seems

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As I suspected - so essentially he has just done a CD-R compilation of every years chart and is flogging it - that can't be legal can it? Given that a large portion of F50 tracks will be under major label copyright & publishing...

Funnily enough the user Flysmoke43 just won one of my ebay auctions (Babes In Toyland Intermenstral boxset) so I have his real name and full address if anyone is interested!


> (this came into myself rather than to the list)
> From: "niag_co_uk" <gary@...>
> 
> Thought it was to good to be ture.
> 
> Dear flysmoke43,
> >
> >Couple of questions,
> >1 - Are these disks copies of the complete festive fifty shows or
> just the edited ff parts?
> >2 - What's the quality like particularly the early years?
> >
> >Thanks.
> 
> Received this this morning in reply....
> 
> hi there...these are the compiled tracks not the radio shows.....70%
> from original cds...the rest from mp3 or original vinyl...the quality
> is good...there are a few tracks over the years that are so obscure
> that i have had to settle for lesser quality recordings..but not
> many...cheers
> 
> Niag.
> 
> 
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Ford" <alan@f...> wrote:
> >  At the risk of generating free publicity for this person, I thought
> you might be interested in this
> >
> >  http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZflysmoke43
> >
> >  Flysmoke43 seems to have quite a good business going; flogging
> Festive 50's dating back to 1976 for at least �14.99 each.
> >
> >  Admirable capitalist enterprise?
> >
> >  Or outrageous cash-in?
> >
> >  Anyone know the legality of selling recordings of BBC programs?
> >
> >  Alan
> -- 
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