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Bootlegs, the unofficial recordings of music, have been around for more than a century. Adam de Paor-Evans says that the market for bootlegged products - whether vinyl, cassette or CD – have become particularly buoyant over the last 40 years or so. Although their popularity faded with the arrival of digital downloads and a focus on data pirating in the noughties, the physical bootleg has more recently been subject to something of a renaissance.
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Bootlegs - across formats - have experienced buoyancy within the music marketplace for the last 40 years or so.
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Adam de Paor-Evans, University of Central Lancashire
Bootlegs will continue to be manufactured.
The future of the bootleg might just reinvent the official release.
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Danny Bradlow, University of Pretoria
The promise of BRICS was that it would usher in a new approach to development. But after meeting annually for the last nine years there's no sign that the old order has been challenged.
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Science + Technology
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Brenda Wingfield, University of Pretoria
Scientific truth is based on a body of research which has been tried and tested by many researchers over time. Peer review filters the good science from the bad.
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Annette Hübschle, University of Cape Town
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