Legendary Berlin Clubs Face Closure (in correlation to the gema thread)
read this:
Blogging it on dutch digital dj community(digidj.nl) as we speak.
thatĀ“s some real serious shit. i also read an interview the owner of distillery (which east germanys oldest techno club) and he said, that they are also facing to close down distillery since the prices are way to high 
Well, Iām guessing illegal raves will start taking place more and more.
(Back to the old school)
gonna be hard in the wintertime but during spring/summer we have like 2-3 illegal technoparties in the woods, under bridges etc. every weekend 
so we are trained in guerilla party tactics
Thatās so simpleminded, GEMA wants to protect the artist royalties and kills one of the few revenue streams EDM producers haveā¦
Get it over it.
Best thing that could possibly happen. Get all the try hard of the scene.
And to make it more absurd: they are not even protecting anything in the electronic music scene as the money is distributed according to chart positions and radio airplay and stuff like that. So the money generated in techno clubs (where most of the music from smaller independent labels is not even represented by GEMA at all) is given to some cheesy commercial fuckheads that already have too much money to begin with. And you can not appropriately battle this, as there is the so-called āGEMA assumptionā, i.e. you have to proove that you do not play GEMA protected music rather than them having to proove the opposite. Itās really a giant pile of shit and the article in the original post only touches on a few of the issues (they for example also just increased the fees imposed on memory sticks/cards - from 0,10ā¬ to 0,91ā¬ for less than 4GB and 1,95ā¬ on larger ones). Itās really one of those subjects were even chill dudes like me can develop quite some aggressive potential (did I mention they spend 120.000.000ā¬ each year for administrative purposes?).
But Iām convinced in the end they are gonna back away from their preposterous claims and some sort of compromise is gonna be made (or their stupid monopoly is finally broken, but I donāt even dare to wish for something that great). Club culture will continue to exist and those GEMA idiots will pet themselves on the backs stating how fairly they were treating and negotiating with club owners and the likes.
For the German speaking crowd, read this interview if you havenāt already (but try to keep only stuff near that you donāt mind to be broken, spontaneous outbursts of aggression are quite likely) http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur/gema-sprecherin-schlicher--es-geht-um-gerechtigkeit-,10809150,16452772.html
Fuck off!
+1
yo 1mco! what is problem? imagine this would happen in your country. and also this problem could not only affect the scene in germany but as well the techno scene world wide since there is a lot of stuff developing/progressing/going on over here. so please just shut up or say something that doesnĀ“t sound like a 12 year old! no love from the panda right now!
@3heads:
No I get it why pictures of Gaby Schilcher were posted that much. 
This is really sad news. Iāve always wanted to go to see the clubbing scene in Berlin, especially the Berghain and the Love Parade. I was obviously saddened by the news a few years ago that the Love Parade would cease to exist, and now this. I would save up and go there in the autumn, but I have next years tuition fee to pay for, so itās looking unlikely that this will happen 
letĀ“s just hope that the gema wonĀ“t get passed with this
Yeah, talking about Love Parade, I wanted to visit that after the MIDIFight Club. At the end of Saturday I was glad we decided not to go, as that this was the last episode.
i hope all of you signed the petition that has been going on 
Online petitions donāt do anything, people need to organize a protest or something and call their government representatives (or however it works over there).
Thatās right! The only thing that works is changing the color of your twitter avatar
Hey I changed my facebook cover photo to be anti-SOPA and signed an online petition and SOPA died. Coincidence? I think not.