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Technology & Science

May 12, 1999

Deadheads Can Download Without Hassle

SAN FRANCISCO - For decades, the seminal Bay Area rock band, the Grateful Dead, had perhaps the music industry's most lenient policy toward bootleg recordings of its legendary live shows, even going so far as to reserve special sections for fans to set up taping equipment.

By Dennis Pfaff
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - For decades, the seminal Bay Area rock band, the Grateful Dead, had perhaps the music industry's most lenient policy toward bootleg recordings of its legendary live shows, even going so far as to reserve special sections for fans to set up taping equipment.
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