Ongoing History Daily: The era of the bootleg, part 2
Last time, we talked about the concept of music piracy in the days before the MP3 came along. It was the era of the bootleg record and CD. People will somehow gain access
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Lionel Mapleson
The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 722: A History of Bootlegs
I’m sure you’ve heard the term “bootlegger” before. It’s a word that came out of the 1920s during Prohibition when a bottle of whiskey was as illegal as a kilo of heroin. Naturally,
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