No shame in this game?

Has it suddenly become de facto within Hard House to release all these bootlegs we're currently seeing? It wasn't that long ago a backlash happened on here when another artist was actually getting permission via a frowned upon licensing method for official covers but, ultimately getting the rights to release them.  

Hasnt this been happening for years??? If it's 'ok' for one of the biggest names to do it then people will follow suit.

Good point Ross. They shouldn't be released though!

Of course bootlegs have Ross, anonymously because of possible repercussions. Lately it seems anything goes without that concern More so in the last year has it become a bit rife with the bootlegs.

More likely cos there's no money in it I reckon.
If you bootlegged a track a few years ago, just selling 500 whites would net you a small profit, and 1000+ was some good earnings, easy done as ya know with the right track. Costs more to make the track than you get back now if using an engineer, which most are, so pointless threatening to sue for money that isn't being made?
I had a snotty phone call from a certain producer in 2004-ish threatening to sue if I released a booty I had done of 1 of their tracks, and was given the advice by a certain retiring dj to tell em to fuck off and that I'd only made 300 copies, so wasn't making owt out of it
In the end I denied all knowledge of it as I'd already had em pressed and was in the process of distributing em, sold pretty well tho not sayin how many

No imagination either.Sick to death of hearing remixes of tracks that did not need remixing in the 1st place, if it aint broke dont fix it.'ooh just thought I would update it for my sets' well fucking dont, if it does not fit in your set then dont play it.I am talking about full on remixes as opposed to sampling of tracks etc

i noticed it too jay, and I bet your talking about trackitdown, as its full of them. I dont like it either, if there's no money in it, its not the point to be honest

Stephen Hill is raping the scene with his masifly shit bootlegs! And didnt even write a hi hat in any of them 

Just in general, the email notifications being fed from facebook etc with yet another bootleg someone is releasing. Quite surprised how open they are.  

all aboard.... the night train

He's still raping the scene tho whether he applies for a licence to do it or not lol! He's not the only one either! 
Its no wonder hard dance dying on its arse, everyone is sick of listening to the same old shit getting rehashed & re released!

The reason I said he gets clearance was based on how open some are on owning up to the bootlegs they are releasing. 

talking about bootlegs when is adam m going to give out his diddy - 'give me love' bootleg...selfish git

I reckon it would be fucking hilarious if someone under an alias started bootlegging brand new released tracks by artists who have bootlegged other peoples tracks in the past and started giving them out for free. Would piss them right off, cause a bit of popcorn required drama and would maybe stop them doing it again in the future.

There's no money in it whats so ever, so yeah people could sue and for what ? It would cost far to much money to sue someone just because they sold 10 copies on toolbox and got to number 1 for a few days.

if these bootlegs were selling thousands of copies it would be a different story...........but there not. Get over it jay

Read somewhere you can only sue for a proportion/all of the profits made and can't claim damages etc. The reason people are so happy to put their name to it is probably becasue they know they are untouchable even in the worst case scenario and legal action is persued.

The question was why are people openly putting their names to released bootlegs lately, not why are they releasing them. As though it's ok for some reason. Just to clarify the point being made.