Orion wrote:
> Brian Gurtler wrote:
> 
>> no, it would not leave the entire database as bootleg. it would make the
>> live concert DVD rips bootlegs where the source is the DVD (aka DSBD as
>> far as live recording sources are labled outside of MB).
>> Please expand on this, because it makes no sense to me how ripping out
>> audio of a concert DVD is anything but a bootleg.
> 
> 
> It doesn't make much sense to me why it would be bootleg.  I buy a CD,
> put it in my computer, open a ripping program, hit go, and have a bunch
> of wav files that I can encode to whatever.  

right, you buy an official CD that is sanctioned by the artist and its label

I buy a live DVD, put it in
> my computer, open a ripping program, hit go, and have a bunch of wav
> files that I can encode to whatever.  

which is basicly making a bootleg audio CD out of a DVD. Same as if you
were to record the audio from a television performance on the late show
with David Letterman.
If it were an official release, you would have imported a CD not a
ripped audio from a DVD.

> There's no difference in process
> between the two for me other than using EAC for CD ripping and DVD

no, but MB isn't about the process.. it's more about what it is.
a bootleg is a bootleg.

> Decrypter for DVD ripping, so it's hard to see why when I rip a CD it
> would be official but when I rip a DVD it would be bootleg.  I suspect
> other people that rip the audio from their live DVDs feel the same way.
> 
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