Seventies Flashback: Tape Piracy… Everyone’s Problem

September 2, 2010

Even way before downloading the record industry already regarded piracy as a problem. The only difference is, then they didn’t fear digital copies on computers, but analog copies on 8-track tapes! And apparently it upset Jerry Lee Lewis most of all, as you can read under Lewis One-Man Pirat Smasher. This bulletin was printed on Mercury/Philips/Vertigo record sleeves for some years during the mid-seventies. Click here for a larger version.


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