I suppose this is part rant and part asking advice. When a song on Beatport is outside of the area for which you are allowed to download, what is you alternative.
I understand that this has to do with certain copyright laws. Does this happen often to people on this forum? Is there a way to get around it? Call me salty, but I do get pretty pissed when I can’t download a song called New York City Beat and I live in New York. Yes that is technically salty.
Also, how viable an option if buying non-digital releases of these songs, having them shipped ove here, and “wripping” them to your computer. That thought is kinda off the top of my head.
There are a couple different articles on there. The pricing one is actually more current, and has a better alternative to the SOCKS proxy program I suggested in the first article. Remember that you have to choose a country that has a distribution deal with the label your song is on - sometimes this takes a little detective work on discogs.org.
Also, if you’re paying with a credit card, you need to stay proxied until you check out, then drop your proxy. Otherwise the CC charge won’t go through (I go into this in the second article). But as of a couple weeks ago it still works.
If you’re running across these restricted songs alot, it might pay off to invest in a private proxy service. Tracking down a free server that meets your needs is a pain in the ass.
yeah how sucky is it to find some awesome song on beatport only to be told you can’t buy it in your territory.
I’m reading nem0nic’s link now, it strikes me as funny to go through all that work to have to buy a song but i guess that is the price you have to pay to remain legal and ethical…
The fact that so many of us are willing to jump through these hoops of fire just to make sure the artist gets paid for their work should be a very clear message to both Beatport and the artists/labels that they should drop this antiquated policy of territory based digital distribution. Because honestly most of us could find the song in a blog or on a file hosting service MUCH quicker than we could find a working proxy.
It’s not Beatport’s fault, it’s the ridiculously convoluted and incompatible copyright and mechanical licensing restrictions that vary from country to country. What choice does Beatport have but to comply with the laws of the countries it wants to sell tracks in?
What Beatport could do to eliminate the frustration, though, is filter results by IP origin so that unavailable tracks simply don’t show up in their offerings. If they can determine through your IP that a track is territory-restricted, then they should be able to filter their catalogue as well.
Beatport could certainly insist that songs sold on their service will either be allowed to be sold to any region. If the offering isn’t on a label that has global distribution, then they could offer distribution through their own label. Refusing those 2 options, Beatport could refuse to sell the track. They’re certainly big enough to throw a little weight around, and they should be trying to discourage antiquated distribution deals based on physical media.
Of course it is. But they’re the only entity right now that services the DJ community and has the ability to push things forward. They’re certainly in the position to be able to put pressure on artists and labels.
If they start experiencing the kind of losses the gaming industry is experiencing over issues like SecuROM, they may start wishing they had been more proactive. It’s too easy to steal, so the more stumbling blocks a retailer puts in place between a customer and a purchase, the more justification many of them will feel to steal the content. If you weigh this against the benefits of artificially limiting the distribution of digital content through the enforcement of distribution deals that were put in place when music came on physical media, I’m not sure how you justify the practice.
These are often matters of international copyright law, not just handshake deals between labels and retailers, and not just legacy practices from physical distributuion. I’m not blindly defending Beatport, but seriously, do you think they want to limit the availability of sales?
Right now, yes I do. They want to make the labels feel like they’ll “play ball”. This is especially true when trying to attract majors for Beatsource. They don’t want to seem like they’re willing to compete with the labels that they’re currently trying to attract.
I’m not sure if this affects our american brethren but here in new zealand we have a little problem with territory restrictions on certain albums and tracks on Beatport.
What i mean is you can listen to the tracks on the site no problem but when you pry your visa from your girlfriends cold dead hands you can’t buy it (and sometimes its only one track on an album which is even more annoying).
I asked beatport about this and they are against it obviously, as it costs them money, and reckon they are having talks with the record companies to rectify this.
The example i can think of is i wanted one of the Darude Vs Blake Leary Remixes “I Ran (So Far Away)” and couldn’t get it. (I did eventually, but by clandestine methods arrr me hearties).
In this scenario you have two options
Bite the bullet and get a most likely lower quality copy from “some other source”
or
Mask your ip to fool Beatport and purchase the tracks legitly
My last name is Andersen. I know where Denmark is mate haha
Ok its over there too. Annoying isn’t it. You find a cool track to play at your next party and cant get it. UGH
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