Release type for "taper" releases

[jesus2099]

@highstrung

Promotional is not at all the same as traded. A promotional release is distributed by the artist/label. A traded release is distributed by fans among themselves.

@highstrung

traded : An unofficial release that is sanctioned by the artist and/or label and distributed purely on a non-commercial basis.

Then Bootleg is enough for this case in my humble opinion…
Splitting this out is becoming hard to know, guess and edit.

[mmirG]

Problems around proposed “traded” category:

1. This category can be seen as “unofficially sanctioned by an artist who may, or may not, hold copyright”. Which puts this category outside the “copyright compliant-copyright violating” binary.

2. Instances where the existence of permission can be determined from documentary evidence will be (I think) be a very small proportion of possible cases. I think most artist would not leave documents around for their label and us to read. Which would leave editors to rely on their personal understandings. [emoji denoting wild melee]

3. The impression I got on searching dime a dozen, roio and traders den, is that “traded” already has a clear meaning around non-official popular music recordings and that meaning includes straight-up bootlegs.
   MB already has too many anti-intuitive, uncommon-meaning words that make life difficult for new users.

[paulakreuzer]

@highstrung

The releases are not commercially available; they are traded among collectors

@highstrung

The third point is useful information if I find a release that I’d like to have, so I know not to look for it in a store but rather to go to a trading hub like etree.org.

I think this is what it comes down to: If we don’t agree on adding a new release status then how can we add the info where to find such a release?

[jesus2099]

@paulakreuzer

@highstrung

The releases are not commercially available; they are traded among collectors

@highstrung

The third point is useful information if I find a release that I’d like to have, so I know not to look for it in a store but rather to go to a trading hub like etree.org.

I think this is what it comes down to: If we don’t agree on adding a new release status then how can we add the info where to find such a release?

Adding a whole new type just for a specific (pirate?) download site?
There must be other ways, like a tag or annotation on a bootleg release (group).

[paulakreuzer]

I only asked how else we could do it, I didn’t suggest to add a new link type.

@jesus2099

like a tag

I actually like that idea.