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Anyone who charges any amount of money for their time, for postage materials, and for disc materials, is an unethical trader. Unfortunately, if you give people an inch, they tend to take a mile.
Trading ethics all derive from the Grateful Dead's taping policy that recording and sharing is all fine and good as long as no money exchanges hands.
The policy pays respect to common human decency and the artists themselves. And anything less is the forte of soulless chumps.
Since people circumvent this creedo for material gain via overt selling (on ebay for instance) or covert selling (like rappard), most artists, their labels, and the venues themselves, disallow concert recording.
Hence, recording these days usually has to be done at one's own risk of being removed from the venue, or possibly prosecuted.
And every bad apple trader/show seller only causes more artists to become jaded and disallow recording or the posting of torrents of their live material.
Every abuser only brings us one day closer to the day that BitTorrent will be banned from the internet.
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