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Post by arthuradams2002 on May 13, 2010 16:39:25 GMT -5
I felt like starting a thread to discuss and reminisce of the good ole days of tape trading. Does anybody have any memories that they would like to share ? I think it was referenced on the Rise and Fall of ECW DVD that since the company was only syndicated in select markets for a while, many avid fans relied on tape trading to be able to watch the shows. I remember tape trading was big on the internet for a while. There were so many sites with people's list of videos. Now we have dvds, but does anybody still trade frequently ? I see tape trading as one aspect of being a hardcore wrestling fan that was good for a while, but ran it's course. I could break down some of the obvious reasons why it died out.
1. So much wrestling video footage is available right at your fingertips with sites like youtube.
2. WWE fought heavily against piracy and had a lot of the home pages shut down. Plus, do you remember the time when people were listing bootleg tapes galore on ebay ?
3. WWE started rerelasing more and more old footage, plus they introduced Classics on Demand on cable and streaming through their website.
4. I assuming some people lost interest in collecting old wrestling footage and moved on to something else.
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Post by strykerdarksilence on May 13, 2010 17:12:52 GMT -5
I still do it with a lot of guys around the indy scene in the UK. You have to look a bit harder for people, but it's still sround.
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Post by Craig-UK on May 13, 2010 18:36:13 GMT -5
I aint sure if I can link to a site (as I havent read the rules in a long time), but there is a wrestling tape/dvd trading community out there on 1 main site.. CM
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Post by navajomartian on May 13, 2010 20:01:47 GMT -5
Tape trading (buying copied material from people) Coliseum Video and using video downloader for Youtube and Daily Motion is the only way I will obtain anything WWF related. I will not buy that edited crap on dvd.
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Post by indymadman on May 13, 2010 23:23:08 GMT -5
I share a story about tape trading on one of my early youtube videos... lol... it's pretty funny. I was actually sued by WWF/E.
If any of you traded tapes in 1999-2004ish... chances are you traded with me.
Check out my youtube site of stuff I traded for by looking up aboveaveragemuta on youtube.
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Post by Kris Kobain on May 14, 2010 0:52:18 GMT -5
I never did it online but I had a friend that had a massivle collection and he and I would trade stuff. He bought a lot of bootleg stuff and I would buy commercial products. Pretty much I would go out and buy VHS and bring it to school, he would bring a couple bootleg shows and we would swap and just copy what the other person brought and then trade back.
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Post by johnnyk9 on May 14, 2010 6:53:17 GMT -5
I still do it just with DVDs
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2010 7:53:31 GMT -5
I used to for a spell in the mid-90s. I was working, single and had expendable income, so I'd check the Torch for the latest ECW Arena show and see if it was worth buying. (ECW hadn't hit the Chicago market until 1999.)
I'd buy it, then trade it with somebody else for another show. I got a lot of good stuff that way.
Only WWF tape I got was when Derek sent me WM 13, as I explained it made no sense for me to order a PPV I was attending and couldn't record.
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Post by Judas Heyman on May 14, 2010 9:20:25 GMT -5
I share a story about tape trading on one of my early youtube videos... lol... it's pretty funny. I was actually sued by WWF/E. If any of you traded tapes in 1999-2004ish... chances are you traded with me. Check out my youtube site of stuff I traded for by looking up aboveaveragemuta on youtube. Great channel man...I added u as a friend. Look for extremekurt on youtube to checkout my channel. |
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Post by agent817 on May 14, 2010 9:33:18 GMT -5
I guess the fact that there's so much edited footage on the more recent DVDs that I am trying to get my hands as much WWF DVDs, as well as tapes (Including the Coliseum Video ones), as much as possible. Since the OP mentioned the bootleg tapes on eBay, were those real? Looking back, I can't say for sure if they were real, but I remember seeing some listings of bootleg tapes on eBay for Shawn Michaels matches and Triple H matches. As well as a video tape collection consisting of the feud of Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels. I remember wanting to get those sets, but looking back, I am not sure if they even really existed. I have come to this website that sells bootlegged sets of TV show DVDs of shows that haven't hit DVD yet. I even read that some people never received their DVD set.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on May 14, 2010 11:39:10 GMT -5
I used to do it big time I still have a bunch of containers full of VHS tapes. I just kinda stop for no real reason. I guess because the lack of time to make copies of my stuff. But still could been a buyer of it. But oh well. It was fun to do to see all the stuff you never seen before and couldn't go and find it at the local retailer.
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Post by slickster on May 14, 2010 12:13:08 GMT -5
I've got some friends in the US who still do this for extremely reasonable rates. PM me for links if you'd like.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2010 13:59:24 GMT -5
years back (97-98ish) I had only ever seen WWF/WCW stuff,
but I was a hardcore reader of the Apter mags so ECW sounded legendary from reading those.
Finally one day my online friend agreed to send me 30+ ECW shows on VHS,
all I had to do was pay the shipping and send him his tapes back when done dubbing them.
Needless to say, for a while I was in wrestling overload and basically did nothing for weeks but watch ECW tapes.
It truly was my glory days for watching wrestling
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