Downloads in a Restricted Area on Beatport

[Chubbz]

Hi there..

yah i get the same restrictions as you (am frm brunei), u like a particular track but you cant buy it...sucks big time... but alls not lost...you might find it at other sites like djdownload, traxsource, trackitdown.net etc. but if you really want that particular track badly you can ask an overseas friend to buy it for you. theres another method that was mention this forum if am not mistaken but i cant find it...something about making your ip look like its not from restricted territories...sumone can confirm this?

chubbz

[DvlsAdvct]

I had this problem on beatport a bit the first few times I tried to get stuff. It was really frustrating cause I was finding really kickin tracks and couldn't buy em...

But I just kept looking and found other kickin tracks.

[Jester]

Hi there..

yah i get the same restrictions as you (am frm brunei), u like a particular track but you cant buy it...sucks big time... but alls not lost...you might find it at other sites like djdownload, traxsource, trackitdown.net etc. but if you really want that particular track badly you can ask an overseas friend to buy it for you. theres another method that was mention this forum if am not mistaken but i cant find it...something about making your ip look like its not from restricted territories...sumone can confirm this?

chubbz

thats what i was hinting at before. if you mask your ip you can buy those tracks (and download porn or find out what democracy is if you live in china lmao)

[Chubbz]

found the thread...

http://www.djtechtools.com/forum/sho...t+restrictions

[Chilly]

I smell 'merge' lol

[Gueen]

I must admit that I bought once a track by asking a friend to log in for me and buy it from his country. It worked anyway.

[Flaekiface]

My last name is Andersen. I know where Denmark is mate haha

Cool. You would be suprised to know how many people who dont know where Denamrk is. Or how many thinks Denamak is the capital of another random european contry

[claudek]

I never knew about this..Is this all about their new publishing thing?

[jasonj]

I am in Canada and I have the same issues with Beatport / Beatsource.

I think it is absolutely retarded.
Like the songs that are up there, are they not being posted up on the Beatport website for retail purposes? whats the point of having a song there if you are going to only make it available to only a certain demographic?
I know the problem is that other countries and distributors have rights over Beatport in some of these occasions and the songs.

The one I do not understand is I am in Canada, Deadmau5 is in Canada and I get the territory restrictions on some of his music as well?

Just does not make sense to me! Like they do not want to promote piracy yet they "the record company fat kats" are keeping the music out of the fans hands and money from the artists dinner table.

Techniques like neumonics are great and I myself have employed that technique with Beatport and other country specific services.
However I would say not everyone out there is going to understand or even realize this can be done.

I think this issue should just become remedied.

I think in time you may start to see many artists who get a name out there and known soon take the same route as Trent Reznor of NIN and fulfill the contracts with the Labels and then drop them all together and Release their music on their own.
I see this trend on some up and coming artists who start their own Digital Label (ie... Splendid Imaginings, Rottun Recodings etc... )

[EanGolden]

I would be super into Nemonic writing an article about this on the website if your into it? Perhaps a 3 parter:

why territory restrictions suck
why they are there in the first place (get beatports side)
how to get around them

that would be a killer piece