Jeremey wrote:Understand the time and place for dance mixes is not on the radio nor in the CD store. It's a specialized market. I'm not trying to defend one way or another, but it's not really making money off of people's hard work, when people are working hard themselves to create something new....Ripping people off by stealing their material without putting any work into it would really be burning CDs of and then reselling them...If a bunch of 21 year olds love DSB and a remix is played in the middle of a 3 hour dance mix at some club at 3 in the morning, isn't that really just promoting Journey any way? It's the only place a song like this would ever be heard anyway.
It's ripping them off only if:
a) the band has no say in whether or not the remix is allowed to be done in the first place and b) the band doesn't see a royalty from the sales of the remix.
Like it or not, the remix wouldn't exist if the original song wasn't created and popularized by the originating artist(s) in the first place.
PS: I was going to ask who sang that, because it doesn't sound like it's from the original Perry track nor does it sound like Perry. Even still, nicely done Jer.