in regards to posting pics …

No number plates, try and keep rig banners out of them … to be honest its all down to common sense … if you owned a rig … what wouldnt you want people showing the world about your parties?

and no im not partying … im cooking dinner and probably watching more ‘my name is earl’ 🙂

forgot that one 🙂

there are a lot of pics on here and other places before 2004. Also younger people with less “security awareness” put pics on bebo..

bear in mind one persons memories of fun weekend is another persons evidence of crime and anti-social behaviour.

levels of enforcement vary across the UK (for instance Scotland and the North are at present still tolerant) but they can change at the coppers and locals whim – Norfolk went from a party every weekend to zero tolerance in the space of a few months.

I’ve spoken to many rig owners down south who don’t want their footage on youtube but they can’t exactly confiscate cameras and phones off people. TBH the video quality of YT isn’t that good for evidence gathering, but its the titles and comments what are often bait.

Bear in mind also anti-rave locals are encouraged by cops in some region to look at YT and even sites like this themselves and pass on such info as they find.

so much depends on the regions now.

its currently still safe to put up pics of Scottish parties and Northern parties, was looking at some on a Scottish site of midg(i)e death and with a youtube or myspace run by a party crew the crew of course has full editorial control.

TBH you could still get away with crowd shots of Southern parties, but be careful to obscure car reg numbers etc.

The reason I was careful of my pics is they contained a lot of pictures of stacks/equipment, as well as DJ’s doing their sets, and these pics showed very distinctive items and banners – at the time I took them some people portrayed were currently going through Court cases for parties.

We’ve had people from party crews email us before and ask us to search for and remove pictures of certain things.

SJ gallery was taken down in 2005 because people didn’t use common sense and pictures were used to get evidence for ASBOs against crews in the SE of England. its only returned now because the Court cases have been heard, and people are hopefully more clued up about

I enjoy photography and videomaking and have done so for many years now. I do also respect the wishes of people from local crews who have let me take photos, but have requested that these photos are not shared on the public internet. A good rule of thumb may be to keep a close watch on the local press. If there are no negative reports about free parties in the region then I expect its fairly safe to be more open about sharing photos within reason.