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?
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.
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)
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
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… )
And I would be very willing to do the article, including a revised method for bypassing them for Beatport’s new site (I would need to research this). But until the end of April, I’m totally covered up with work.
This has been an issue I feel strongly about, and it’s unfortunate that retailers and labels make it so hard for legitimate users to pay money for music that they end up going to RapidShare instead. It’s pretty stupid, really. When I look at the reasons labels are using for artificially restricting distribution of digital files over the internet, the over-riding theme is greed. And retailers like Beatport, who are in a position of some power, shrug helplessly and point their fingers at the labels.
I understand the rationale Beatport has for looking in the other direction - they don’t want to rock the boat. Doing something radical like establishing their own (region-free, online only) label, trying to force labels to drop the restrictions, etc will likely piss off a few folks and cause them to leave. But I personally think that I would rather have a store with fewer artists but a more accessible catalog then the current system. And that’s why I’ve moved Beatport from my first shopping stop to my last. Over the last year, I’ve probably spent less than $100 USD there, where before I would spend $20-40 a month.
It’s too bad, because I really like the company. I WANT to shop there, because I think they are doing alot of things right. But territory restrictions on digital files is such a regressive policy that I can’t forgive it.
I’ll start dabbling around on the new site and seeing if alot has changed since their update in terms of proxy use.
I remember having this issue recently (actually with one of my favorite tracks I just listed in the “favorite tracks” thread).
It was Mario Piu “Serendipity” (Mas Mix). Its a very rare track (as far as I could find on digital anyway). I finnaly found a place to buy it and SLAP (territory restriction) SHART!!
So I searched around and ended up going the proxy route…VERY convoluted & it was interesting to say the least but I made the purchase…then realized after all that trouble it was the wrong mix
So I ended up getting in touch with Mario himself and asking him for help. He actually ended up GIVING me the track! Friggn awesome guy!!!
