The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #165955 Message #3986294
Posted By: GUEST,Ed
07-Apr-19 - 12:31 PM
Thread Name: The problem with Discogs
Subject: RE: The problem with Discogs
Rossey,
Whilst it's clear that you are extremely pissed off, you may want to calm down a bit.
To take your example of 'Home to Inverness', I searched Discogs for it, and guess what it came back with?
OK, it gives that date as 1970 rather than 1969, but that appears to be when the album, 'The Highland Road' was released. So they missed an earlier B-Side release. That's hardly unforgivable, I wouldn't have thought?
As I'm sure you are aware, the database consists, largely, of contributions made by a vast number of volunteers. To call them 'vultures' and 'parasites' seems more than a little harsh.
You mention that, "This site is flagrantly claiming to give copyright information.". I can't find any evidence of that, but I'm happy to be corrected.
Your distress at what you seem to think is a desecration of your father's memory, is understandable, but the reason for this rant against 'autobots' isn't clear to me.
I doubt you'll care to know, but it isn't a "so called database", it's a database. No definition of database that I've ever seen, includes the accuracy of the data as being essential component of the concept.