Tag: piracy
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The USSR’s First Pirate Compact Disc — From a Rolling Stones Fan
The first pirate CD made in the USSR was probably the “Rolling Stones — 19 Nervous Songs” (SUM 90 001) CD, which was made at Melodiya. Some sources call it…
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AnTrop — Soviet Pirate Music Label
In 1978, Andrey Tropillo declared he wanted to build a vinyl plant and flood the USSR with Beatles LPs—an ambition friends wrote off as delusional. A decade later, as director of…
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Melodiya and its Plants in USSR
Most of the technically complex goods in the Soviet Union were copied from the Europeans, Americans and Japanese. In rare cases it was licensed, like Zhiguli cars, but often it…
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Piracy and Theft — Two Sides of the Same Record
At the start of the 20th century—just as today—recording companies, wholesalers, and retailers suffered heavy losses not only from piracy but also from good old-fashioned theft. Most of these cases stayed…
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Russian Audio Piracy in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1900s
Moscow Pirates There was a time in Moscow when visiting merchants were wined, dined, taken for a good steam in the bathhouse, and then tricked into selling their goods for…
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History of Music Piracy in Russia, 1898–1917
By the end of the 19th century, almost simultaneously with the invention of sound recording, the world learned of “music piracy.” And if it took civilization three millennia to deal with pirates…