RW>     Hmmmm, nothing professional about DJing? I guess all that
  >     money I invested in sound systems was a waste. Bad news....
 PW> Personally, I agree with Chris.  DJ's are a bunch of rip off artists 
 PW> who make money from music that they do not pay towards.  Yes they do 
 PW> buy the record/CD but that does not give them the right to reproduce 
 PW> that piece of music at a public gathering.  What they are doing is,
 PW> strictly speaking, against the copyright laws!  No sir, there is 
For the most part that's true, but there are exceptions.  OTOH, most of the 
professional bias against DJ's is that the vast majority of DJ's are 
incredibly illiterate about technical aspects of pro audio.  
As to the Copyright violations, would you include nightclubs, dance schools, 
stores, restaurants, and many other businesses which often don't license 
public performance (though also with some exceptions)?  
I've also come across musicians and broadcasters alike who consider ASCAP and 
BMI to be the biggest of con artists and crooks with regard to how Copyrights 
are handled in the US.  The licensing services have a whole slew of dirty 
tricks they apply toward broadcasters who enter contract disputes about 
licensing.  Rather than debate whether the licensing service may be violating 
the law or its own contract terms at times, both major services have a 
practice of cancelling a station license, attempting to document that the 
station has continued normal business practices with regard to music, and 
suing for absurd damages.  
Would you call businesses which musicians claim pass them back relatively 
little in most cases part of the "entertainment" industry when they use 
practices that model organized crime or the IRS (what's the difference 
there?)?  
Terry
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