I heard the other day that Radioactive has shut down... I guess too many people suing the pants off 'em? To be expected, I guess. Bootleg labels shouldn't expect to stay around for long when they operate so openly. Still, I dunno how Akarma gets away with it. [Well, I do, it's because they only bootleg stuff from countries where they know the people with the rights will find it too difficult to attempt any legal action from a distance. Vicious Sloth complained to them because of stuff they'd bootlegged that Vicious Sloth still had the rights to - and had their own legal CD's on the market - but they just got fobbed off. They know that the little guys can't afford to do anything about it, and the big guys in Australia don't seem to care. So much Aussie 70's stuff from EMI has been bootlegged, but do you think EMI Australia have tried to do anything about it? Nope.
Also apparently Italy has some stupid laws that seem to make it legal in Italy to bootleg stuff under certain circumstances]
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