djcity
Damn...Sorry anyone has to go through that.
Maybe it's something in my demeanor or general attitude or the look on my face that tells em..."Maybe he ain't the one to f**c with" cause I simply do not have issues like that.
I just don't look like the kind of person you can just take advantage of. Don't get me wrong, I'm a nice kindhearted soul, a pussycat.
BUT YOU JUST AIN'T GONNA TREAT ME LIKE SOME GUMP OFF THE CORNERS.
Maybe it's something in my demeanor or general attitude or the look on my face that tells em..."Maybe he ain't the one to f**c with" cause I simply do not have issues like that.
I just don't look like the kind of person you can just take advantage of. Don't get me wrong, I'm a nice kindhearted soul, a pussycat.
BUT YOU JUST AIN'T GONNA TREAT ME LIKE SOME GUMP OFF THE CORNERS.
Mensajes Sat 07 Nov 09 @ 3:59 pm
arthurvasey
In a similar vein to the topics posted in this thread, here's a true story.
My brother's former landlord wanted one of my sisters to do the following (please read this carefully):
He wanted to make several copies of CDs belonging to my sister and wanted her to:
Buy and pay for the blank CD-ROMS;
Use her CD copier to do it on;
Use her electricity;
Then take the original CD from her and SELL her a copy.
This bloke is tight-fisted in nature, anyway - charges more than the state allows for rent, for a start.
At first, you might think that he is quite generous, as he provides a welcome pack of food for new tenants - until you discover where he gets the food from - the freezers of established tenants - without their knowledge or permission - usually when they're out - he lets himself into their property and helps himself to their best food - not the cheap equivalents - branded products!
Mensajes Sat 07 Nov 09 @ 6:53 pm
arthurvasey
DJRudeDoGG wrote :
I actually have a clause in my contract that states that I will not and cannot insert any USB device into my system besides my own. I list the reason as possible viruses, malware and spyware can hitchhike on the device and contaminate my pristine system.
My nice Caroline did precisely that for hers and her twin sister's party - she downloaded songs she wanted played from what can only be described as "questionable sources" - some weren't even the full song - one minute samples, mobile ringtones - she didn't bother to check that they were the full versions, nor virus-check them - just leaned over and put the memory stick in whilst I was working on other files and transferred them over.
The reason I have that in my contract wasn't to thwart attempts by people to get free music but because so many people bring me a thumb drive and ask me to play a song on it, so I needed to put that on my contract. I will not risk it.
Now I use that same rule as my answer to people asking me for music to put on USB devices. I don't have time to burn CDs is what I will tell them if they shove a blank CD in my face. I have had guys say "I can do it quick if you'll let me". Then I just tell them to piss off because I paid for the music and they should too.
At the party itself, I went to answer a call of nature - when I came back, Caroline and her sister Nicola were in the DJ booth - Nicola was , going through my laptop, selecting her particular favourites, playing them for about a minute, then selecting another one - Virtual DJ, which, up until now had been performing really well, was jamming and everything - I later learned that my computer had caught about ten viruses after that!
I've told the kids that, if they want their music, they will have to put it on a CD-ROM, if they won't buy it!
My sister did a gig for our niece's christening last Sunday - Nicola did a CD of selected songs from that week's Top 40 - and they wanted that played on a loop all day.
The same sister, Rita, is celebrating her 50th birthday on the 21st of next month and is having a disco, with me as DJ - the kids will, of course, be dictating the music, as they always try to do - mostly the current top 40, they'll want - it's Rita's party, but that makes no difference - her daughters Elibazeth, Nicola and Caroline will want the top 40, my youngest sister's eldest daughter Katie will want the Clubland CDs played all night, Rita's son Christopher only likes Steps and S Club 7 - the only oldies he likes are those that featured in favourite films - stick on Grease, Dirty Dancing, The Righteous Brothers' version of Unchained Melody (one of his fave films is Ghost), and, for some reason, Walking On Sunshine by Katrina & The Waves. Those on a loop, he's happy!
But, of course, there are other people there besides them - and they will want their stuff played as well!
I try the nice way first and the RuDe way as a last resort.
DJ RuDe
My nice Caroline did precisely that for hers and her twin sister's party - she downloaded songs she wanted played from what can only be described as "questionable sources" - some weren't even the full song - one minute samples, mobile ringtones - she didn't bother to check that they were the full versions, nor virus-check them - just leaned over and put the memory stick in whilst I was working on other files and transferred them over.
The reason I have that in my contract wasn't to thwart attempts by people to get free music but because so many people bring me a thumb drive and ask me to play a song on it, so I needed to put that on my contract. I will not risk it.
Now I use that same rule as my answer to people asking me for music to put on USB devices. I don't have time to burn CDs is what I will tell them if they shove a blank CD in my face. I have had guys say "I can do it quick if you'll let me". Then I just tell them to piss off because I paid for the music and they should too.
At the party itself, I went to answer a call of nature - when I came back, Caroline and her sister Nicola were in the DJ booth - Nicola was , going through my laptop, selecting her particular favourites, playing them for about a minute, then selecting another one - Virtual DJ, which, up until now had been performing really well, was jamming and everything - I later learned that my computer had caught about ten viruses after that!
I've told the kids that, if they want their music, they will have to put it on a CD-ROM, if they won't buy it!
My sister did a gig for our niece's christening last Sunday - Nicola did a CD of selected songs from that week's Top 40 - and they wanted that played on a loop all day.
The same sister, Rita, is celebrating her 50th birthday on the 21st of next month and is having a disco, with me as DJ - the kids will, of course, be dictating the music, as they always try to do - mostly the current top 40, they'll want - it's Rita's party, but that makes no difference - her daughters Elibazeth, Nicola and Caroline will want the top 40, my youngest sister's eldest daughter Katie will want the Clubland CDs played all night, Rita's son Christopher only likes Steps and S Club 7 - the only oldies he likes are those that featured in favourite films - stick on Grease, Dirty Dancing, The Righteous Brothers' version of Unchained Melody (one of his fave films is Ghost), and, for some reason, Walking On Sunshine by Katrina & The Waves. Those on a loop, he's happy!
But, of course, there are other people there besides them - and they will want their stuff played as well!
I try the nice way first and the RuDe way as a last resort.
DJ RuDe
Mensajes Sun 08 Nov 09 @ 5:10 am
DJ Andrey Seagull
What I would do in this situation is to fill this USB stick with some BS unsorted tracks collection that I have on my HDD and forget about it. This way you don't have to say NO and to give your music away. If this teacher is stupid he will be happy. If he isn't stupid he will understand that you don't give your music collection to everybody.
Mensajes Mon 09 Nov 09 @ 6:28 am
low-fat-al
Put 1000's of copies put the barney "I love you... you love me..." song on the USB stick named like different popular songs now. That way if he were to go to a gig without checking any of the files he would make such a fool of himself trying to play the latest Britney Spears song.
I always tried to compare to other professions for people to fully understand this non-tactful and illegal method of trying to start an instant collection. So him being a teacher... you should ask him to get a copy of his teachers certification with your name on it and guarantee you a job at the school too. (not that you really want to). Just pointing out that if he wants the instant DJ library to he can play as a "DJ" then you reverse it on him to say you want to teach and you want the instant path to that.
Forking people now and there instant gratification BS now... I hate it!! FORKING EARN YOUR STUFF PEOPLE!!!
I have been DJ-ing since the late 80's and have collected an enormous amount of records through the years and then started transferring them to digital format for editing and CD's the late 90's, then 2000 and on it has been purely digital. All the time, effort and money invested into my collection and someone wants me to just copy and paste it for them... wow... idiots.
Hard to have a nice response to that.
I always tried to compare to other professions for people to fully understand this non-tactful and illegal method of trying to start an instant collection. So him being a teacher... you should ask him to get a copy of his teachers certification with your name on it and guarantee you a job at the school too. (not that you really want to). Just pointing out that if he wants the instant DJ library to he can play as a "DJ" then you reverse it on him to say you want to teach and you want the instant path to that.
Forking people now and there instant gratification BS now... I hate it!! FORKING EARN YOUR STUFF PEOPLE!!!
I have been DJ-ing since the late 80's and have collected an enormous amount of records through the years and then started transferring them to digital format for editing and CD's the late 90's, then 2000 and on it has been purely digital. All the time, effort and money invested into my collection and someone wants me to just copy and paste it for them... wow... idiots.
Hard to have a nice response to that.
Mensajes Mon 09 Nov 09 @ 12:24 pm
dj-e-lectric
dizzyrocks2001 wrote :
Speaking of DJs having their own gear. You wouldn't believe how many so-called professional DJs don't own their own gear. I work for a DJ / Audio-Visual company and you wouldn't believe how often we get calls from DJs or event planners that need us to provide them with everything; speakers, lights, CDJs, a mixer. I usually ask event planners "why are you hiring a DJ who doesn't own a single piece of equipment? Why aren't you hiring us?!".
I'm amazed when there resonse is "because he is willing to do the wedding for $75...." while they're running up a $400 rental bill for equipment!
Mensajes Mon 09 Nov 09 @ 5:06 pm
dj-e-lectric
I just tell them that I won't give it away, but I will trade with them. I say I will come by YOUR JOB next week with a hard drive with 10,000 songs valued at the going rate of 99 cents each and in exchange you give me a give certificate from your boss for the same amount so I can go christmas shopping at wal-mart during your next shift.
Mensajes Mon 09 Nov 09 @ 5:38 pm
kjdj99
99 cents a song hell. try up to $10,000 US.
Before laptops I used to mix a custom CD to play for the wedding ceromony music on a second system. Since I didn't need the custom CD after the gig I would just give it to the bride as a keep sake.
Well this one bride gave it to the videographer a few weeks later to dub the audio to his video to improve the quality. The guy was visited a couple of years later by the FBI. They were investigating his back room video copy system. He's in Jail now!
Anyway they found the CD I had made and the wedding video he made.
I didn't know what was up when 2 black Suburbans pulled into my home driveway one Saturday morning...The FBI informed me I was looking at $10,000 X 6 songs for copyright infringment.
Thankfully I was just a little fish since I had all of my comercial CD's and 30 years of vinyl.
Even if you give it away it's still illegal.
That's how I learned.
Never, ever, ever, share music.
Kevin
Before laptops I used to mix a custom CD to play for the wedding ceromony music on a second system. Since I didn't need the custom CD after the gig I would just give it to the bride as a keep sake.
Well this one bride gave it to the videographer a few weeks later to dub the audio to his video to improve the quality. The guy was visited a couple of years later by the FBI. They were investigating his back room video copy system. He's in Jail now!
Anyway they found the CD I had made and the wedding video he made.
I didn't know what was up when 2 black Suburbans pulled into my home driveway one Saturday morning...The FBI informed me I was looking at $10,000 X 6 songs for copyright infringment.
Thankfully I was just a little fish since I had all of my comercial CD's and 30 years of vinyl.
Even if you give it away it's still illegal.
That's how I learned.
Never, ever, ever, share music.
Kevin
Mensajes Mon 09 Nov 09 @ 10:38 pm
dizzyrocks2001
kjdj99 wrote :
99 cents a song hell. try up to $10,000 US.
Before laptops I used to mix a custom CD to play for the wedding ceromony music on a second system. Since I didn't need the custom CD after the gig I would just give it to the bride as a keep sake.
Well this one bride gave it to the videographer a few weeks later to dub the audio to his video to improve the quality. The guy was visited a couple of years later by the FBI. They were investigating his back room video copy system. He's in Jail now!
Anyway they found the CD I had made and the wedding video he made.
I didn't know what was up when 2 black Suburbans pulled into my home driveway one Saturday morning...The FBI informed me I was looking at $10,000 X 6 songs for copyright infringment.
Thankfully I was just a little fish since I had all of my comercial CD's and 30 years of vinyl.
Even if you give it away it's still illegal.
That's how I learned.
Never, ever, ever, share music.
Kevin
Before laptops I used to mix a custom CD to play for the wedding ceromony music on a second system. Since I didn't need the custom CD after the gig I would just give it to the bride as a keep sake.
Well this one bride gave it to the videographer a few weeks later to dub the audio to his video to improve the quality. The guy was visited a couple of years later by the FBI. They were investigating his back room video copy system. He's in Jail now!
Anyway they found the CD I had made and the wedding video he made.
I didn't know what was up when 2 black Suburbans pulled into my home driveway one Saturday morning...The FBI informed me I was looking at $10,000 X 6 songs for copyright infringment.
Thankfully I was just a little fish since I had all of my comercial CD's and 30 years of vinyl.
Even if you give it away it's still illegal.
That's how I learned.
Never, ever, ever, share music.
Kevin
I don't get it? You were off the hook because you are a "little fish" and had all your "commercial CDs and 30 years of vinyl"? How does that make you exempt from being charged? Doesn't make sense.
Mensajes Tue 10 Nov 09 @ 6:28 am
djrenee
Not only that but they sent a FLEET of FBI agents to his house, they must have thought this "little fish" was packing HEAT!
Mensajes Tue 10 Nov 09 @ 8:13 am
kjdj99
One of the agents said they treat it just like a drug raid because alot of the copy pirates are as rough as drug dealers. They usualy run with 8 people but 4 showed up since they already knew I wasn't a real threat. (So much for privacy)
They didn't ravage my house or family. In fact they were very nice group. And I had nothing to hide. They didn't audit my computers or rifle through the vinyl records.
They just asked questions about this videographer which I never met and asked me to show them the original CD's of the 6 songs.
I was just told not to do that anymore.
That team basicly took this dudes rolodex file and checked out every card. Of course he must have grabbed
I actually went through the kinda same thing with the IRS when a booking agent I contracted for was audited.
Just like government they scare the shit out of you then back off.
I met an RIAA guy that spoke at an Orlando Mobile Beat show a year later. I asked about the FBI tactics and he wasn't surprised at all since he himself had gone on many raides with bad outcomes.
They didn't ravage my house or family. In fact they were very nice group. And I had nothing to hide. They didn't audit my computers or rifle through the vinyl records.
They just asked questions about this videographer which I never met and asked me to show them the original CD's of the 6 songs.
I was just told not to do that anymore.
That team basicly took this dudes rolodex file and checked out every card. Of course he must have grabbed
I actually went through the kinda same thing with the IRS when a booking agent I contracted for was audited.
Just like government they scare the shit out of you then back off.
I met an RIAA guy that spoke at an Orlando Mobile Beat show a year later. I asked about the FBI tactics and he wasn't surprised at all since he himself had gone on many raides with bad outcomes.
Mensajes Tue 10 Nov 09 @ 9:02 am