I have to admit that I’ve picked up a few of his italo disco edits, but I’m pretty sure they were free.
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I’ve noticed he basically uploads a new edit pack on Bandcamp every week. Doesn’t this guy have to work at all? 
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.” -Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Just reading Balearic Mike’s insta posts about Italian producers ripping off Slam & 808 State in the early 90s, so…
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It’s the music stuff I miss from Insta. But agreed plagiarism in music is not new, it just got easier
At least they replayed, pressed it up and had to physically distribute the stuff… grafters!
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DK did this with an edit a mate of mine did.
If you ever stumble across any tacky European cassette comps from the early 90s, with a bad colour inlay and wonky fonts, the chances are it will contain some dodgy remakes of big pop or dance hits from that time, mysterious producers with names like “Kris Isak”. Destined to end up in roadside bars, supermarkets or petrol stations (sometimes still there years later gathering dust). No questions asked… A lot of this stuff is on Discogs so my guess is someone like ZYX hoovered up a lot of the cowboy labels and eventually reached some kind of deal.
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To be fair to the guy I’ve gone back and had a deeper listen, I’m sure it’s the Dimitri version he’s used (see 2.56 on both) but he’s shortened the track from about 5:30 onwards to make it a minute shorter than the Dimitri version and & he’s chopped up the outro a bit, so I take back the comment that it’s an untouched re-up, still seems to be a “mild” edit of the (licensed) Dimitri edit without crediting Dimitri.
Anyway good luck to the guy, I’m sure there’s another side to the story and plenty of other folk doing the same kinda thing, I’m just saying what I see from my partial view of it. 
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I think it’s a good thing to scrutinize these re-works and edits and most things in general.
Do they need to exist? Sometimes?
But most times the answer if probably no
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