The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140398   Message #3230127
Posted By: Greg B
27-Sep-11 - 04:12 PM
Thread Name: Electronic Distractions at Shows
Subject: RE: Electronic Distractions at Shows
This notion that the audience somehow has "rights" to take the music home in their phones is really quite odd. Your ticket buys you the "right" to sit (or stand as the case may be) politely, listen to the music, applaud, sing along, or show approval in other socially acceptable ways where appropriate, and not a damned thing else. By one guy's logic, if they make a live album out of a performance where I was in the audience, I'm entitled to a free copy.

Recording in spite of a "no recording" policy is right up there with heckling the performer.