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?

Songwriter - Stewart Ross

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.

All the best,

Ed