Pink Floyd 1974 tour copyright dumps
2024 was the fourth year in a row in which Pink Floyd temporarily released numerous 50-year-old concert recordings on streaming services, for the purpose of extending their copyright ownership of the material. The previous two times, the concerts were only available on the streaming services for a matter of weeks. This time, they were apparently gone in a matter of days! In most cases, these recordings were sourced from fan-made bootlegs, and have varying sound quality, some of them very poor. These stealth-released live recordings were really not meant to actually be heard by the fans, and in this latest case, the fans missed the streams if they sneezed, let alone snoozed. I myself was not aware of this latest Floyd "copyright dump" until the recordings had already come and gone from the streaming services. According to information I was able to glean from the web, these recordings appeared on streaming services on or around December 6th, and disappeared around December 13...
