Slammed
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Back in the 80's there was a flood of cassettes from Thailand where their rules allowed them to copy the art and album and sell full blown dodgy copies of anything released in their country. People were buying huge amounts of tapes for $5 and less. Then these businesses started turning up locally at markets and fetes etc, then they moved in DVD's and CD's. They must have made shit load of money and every time the cops shut them down they would change markets, open again until they got busted.
The t-shirt market wasn't quite as lucrative until whatever law was passed that allowed certain unlicensed material. Often band names would be removed, or written in a different font, the picture used was not copyrighted and things like tour names would not be added because they breached copyright rules (as Gene and Paul have been trying to protect recently). What really sucks is when those cheap sweat shop shirts increase in price closer to the price of the genuine ones.
The t-shirt market wasn't quite as lucrative until whatever law was passed that allowed certain unlicensed material. Often band names would be removed, or written in a different font, the picture used was not copyrighted and things like tour names would not be added because they breached copyright rules (as Gene and Paul have been trying to protect recently). What really sucks is when those cheap sweat shop shirts increase in price closer to the price of the genuine ones.
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