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What is so bad about bootlegs?

Inigomontoya
#300What is so bad about bootlegs?
Posted: 7/20/14 at 10:46am

While on the subject of bootleg recording -
I was always curios about one thing - I know that there are videos of shows from the 1960's and 70's and since video recording at the time were very big and noticeable I presume that ushers and front house managers were aware to the fact hat someone is filming the show?
So I assume that there was a time wheb it was allowed to some extant? (correct me if I'm wrong)

It something I was always curios about, if something has changed over the years about the treatment to bootleggers.

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Mr. Nowack
#301What is so bad about bootlegs?
Posted: 7/20/14 at 3:12pm

Inigomontoya, while it definitely wasn't ever allowed, there might not have been set rules about it because it was such a rare occurrence.

I believe a lot of footage from that era was done by cast members of rehearsals and things like that, rather than audience members filming parts of live performances like we have today. A lot of audio bootlegs from that era come from soundboards, which means that someone related to the production had to get them and start circulating them.


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darreyl102
#302What is so bad about bootlegs?
Posted: 7/20/14 at 4:12pm

If someone figured out how to put a video camera in binoculars- It would be really easy to film a show and not get caught- as long as you were a distance away. It would look really weird being front row with binoculars (But not unheard of) LOL


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haterobics
#303What is so bad about bootlegs?
Posted: 7/20/14 at 6:15pm

I brought binoculars to Hair on Broadway, and the staff looked at me like I was some sort of pervert.

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darreyl102
#304What is so bad about bootlegs?
Posted: 7/20/14 at 6:28pm

LOL. A brought them the second time i saw Priscilla and i was front row- Not even ashamed.


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