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UK DVDs of JAPAN 1985 and RIO 85 ?!

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They are all unofficial releases.
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Yes, but they look legit.

I guess Amazon wouldn't sell bootlegs and bootleg companies are usually less exposed with full company informations.
The Japan DVD is official. It was recent bought by a company for Europe release.

The Rio DVD is not official.

Take care
Yes,

Masterplan released these DVD's.

Masterplan is a company wich has cheap releases of DVD's. They most of the time just give official releases to circulating bootlegs without changing them a lot. Actually the only thing wich changes is that they add there logo very big in the corner of the screen during the entire concert. They have horrible releases.

The positive side is that they bring "bootlegs" or unkown shows to a bigger public (for not o mutch money). This way I layed my hands on Black Sabbath Live In Paris '70 and Rainbow Live At The Budokan '84.
I guess these would be considered "pirates", not "bootlegs", since they're copying official material.
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Crappy material recorded in a DVD-R still is crappy material.

P.
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[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]BuDi wrote: [/QUOTENAME]http://www.qleap.co.uk/product.asp?pID=3580&cID=1
http://www.qleap.co.uk/product.asp?pID=2991&cID=1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Queen-Live-Japan-1985/dp/B000GCGDOY/ref=pd_sim_d_h__2/203-5410912-1756767

What is the deal with thrse two DVDs, why are they released by some unknow label and not official Queen one ?[/QUOTE]

Who has the rights to release the complete Japanese 1985 concert? Toshiba EMI perhaps? Why are all the concerts cut? Space on VHS or? See Budapest, Wembley, Japan 1982, Rock in Rio. All official releases.
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[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I guess these would be considered "pirates", not "bootlegs", since they're copying official material.
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I´m almost certain that the Japan DVD is not pirate. I think it is official, i´ve seen it on severall places like Fnac. I don´t think Queen productions would allow this to happen in the great musical stores without saying nothing. It is afterall an official release.
BUT, i might be wrong!!

Take care
Sometimes pirates do make their way into stores, because they can look very legitimate! But it also depends on the store. There are a few record shops in the Toronto area that carry pirates and even bootlegs.
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Aaaargg!

Shiver me timbers!
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Sometimes pirates do make their way into stores, because they can look very legitimate! But it also depends on the store. There are a few record shops in the Toronto area that carry pirates and even bootlegs.
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It is down to distributors carrying these dodgy titles without knowing they aren't legitimate. Major chains only deal with long established distributors - so the fuck up is with the distributors not the shops.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Negative Creep wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Sometimes pirates do make their way into stores, because they can look very legitimate! But it also depends on the store. There are a few record shops in the Toronto area that carry pirates and even bootlegs.
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It is down to distributors carrying these dodgy titles without knowing they aren't legitimate. Major chains only deal with long established distributors - so the fuck up is with the distributors not the shops.[/QUOTE]

But that doesn't necessarily mean the shop can't use its own discretion when selling its products, especially something that doesn't even look legit... right?
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They just look like budget releases, like a lot of DVDs out there. How can you expect someone working in a record shop to know that something isn't legit that has been supplied via official channels? You can't. It isn't like DVDs by this label come on DVD-Rs with low quality booklets or anything.
This was years ago like 89-90, but I worked in a record store and we received 25 brand new shrinkwrapped N.W.A. counterfeit tapes shipped with the rest of our products. We sold nearly all of them. When it was brought to our attention that we had fakes, one phone call to the distributor credited us for 25 cassettes... Even though we sold most of them!!!! That was 100% profit for the store.

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