"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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Bootleg vinyl was not that common, though there is no
doubt that some small plants were "at it".




You are in the past tense - I am talking about *today*! Those Blade Runner
bootlegs are almost certainly still available, if they haven't been closed
down - although there's none on eBay atm!

Oh.- That makes it much more interesting:-)

White labels are eagerly sought after and traded by many people!

I've got many hundreds of them - legitimate test pressings
and review copies.


If I have not been sold a complete pup, I believe CD over-runs are
collected by the likes of Securicor for guaranteed *secure disposal* and
that only a couple of pallets of same would be worth *tens of thousands*
out the back doors of pubs and on street markets...???

Yes. There is no CD recycling -you can't punch the label out
and put the rest back into the vat:-)

The reject rate for CDs is now very low indeed, and those
that do not go through are guillotined.

But piracy is rife - it's so easy:-)

Iain