Counterfeit, pirate or bootleg?

[George Geddes]

Interesting article

http://www.recordproducer.com/?a=141&subscriber=1

[JimN]

I don't agree with the author's premise that only a live concert recording is a bootleg. It is easy to envisage bootlegs of well-known and not to well-known studio recordings. In fact, I own several of them.

JN

[iefje]

It is also said that record companies 'lose' money if fans make recordings of concerts. I don't think it's true, because it's mostly of concerts which aren't even professionally recorded. How can the record companies lose money with those recordings?

[Cheeseford]

Also, the people who want bootlegs are people who have already bought the official releases, often many times over. They're a complement, not a replacement, whereas someone buying a hooky copy of an official release affects legitimate sales. Whether the person buying that copy would have bought the official release at full price is another matter.