1 → bootcut : --
bootleg jeans
2 a product that is illegally made, copied, or sold: --
Although Springsteen blocked the album's official distribution, bootlegs inevitably appeared.
3 to illegally make, copy, or sell something: --
The movie's screenplay has been widely bootlegged.
I have asked how many licences have been withdrawn from licensed premises because they were retailing smuggled and bootlegged goods.
They should clamp down with more vigour on the illicit selling of bootleg cigarettes in the vicinity of school playgrounds.
The difference between bootleg collectors and tape traders is important, not least because, as the above quote illustrates, it is extremely important to the traders themselves.
Tape trading is done because one enjoys music and wants to spread it to others, bootlegging occurs when one wants to make a quick, dishonest, buck.
As these original recordings have been officially released, the resultant collectors' tapes are forms of pirate recording rather than bootlegs.
When the bootlegging of rock music first began in 1969, the bootleg pioneers were explicitly counter-cultural: their aim was to destroy the record industry.
The relationship between bootlegging and tape trading is complex and is an extremely important aspect of this area of musical consumption.
These bootlegs are then sold commercially to a small market of interested people.
