Miscellaneous > Intellectual Property & Law
Record industry bitching again...
Calum:
i visited a youth hostel in perth (in scotland, not australia, yes we had a perth first) and they had a record player where they could pipe music through the ground floor, they told me they had to play royalties to the performing rights association, they said they had been playing records like this for years when they got a visit one day from a performing rights representative who told them they would be billed for estimated back royalties from records they had already played. apparently piping music into the youth hostel's common room and dining room constituted public reproduction of a copyrighted work.
Faust:
I say we go on a baseball bat rampage and kill em all. The slow, fun, bludgeoning way!
quote:i visited a youth hostel in perth (in scotland, not australia, yes we had a perth first)
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You thieving bastards! You... like... went forward in time and like... stole it. Meh. Most of Australia is named after places in other countries anyway, eg New South Wales. Which is newer and therefore better than Southern Wales. The heat saps all our imagination - which is why we called our capital territory the Australian Capital Territory, our (sort of) northenmost state the Northern Territory and our westernmost state Western Australia. Everything else is either named after whoever the hell found it or named after the local Aboriginal name. ;)
Man RIAA needs to be taught a lesson. ;)
slave:
You guys, I have a brilliant idea! It's the most kickass plan ever! Let's buy a tiny uninhabited island in the Pacific, like Hawaii or something, and make our own country where it's *legal* to copy anything! The whole country can be rigged with high speed internet access and we can host hundreds of ftps archiving the world's published information. If the record companies or some asshole from the US tells us to stop we'll be like "Hey! This is legal in our country! Respect my authoritah!"
On second thought, scrap that idea, the US would probably make unfounded claims that we were harboring terrorists or building weapons of mass destruction and bomb the crap out of us.
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gnomez:
Why stop at banning reproduction of song lyrics?
What we really need to do is clamp down on people who actually _sing_ those songs, out loud, without paying a royalty. And I'm not talking just street musicians -- what about those immoral folks who sing in the shower? And the even more wicked ones -- since they try to conceal their crimes -- yes, people who hum along in their heads.
Let's face it. It's wrong. The original artist (via the record company) has complete control over how the music is to be experienced. Any performance not sanctioned by them is clearly illegal. And worse, all those folks who heard you sing would otherwise have bought the CD, so you're losing sales -- stealing from the artist.
Not only that, but someone could record you singing the song, even if the original CD was copy protected, which would clearly be a breach of the DMCA.
I know theft when I see it.
Faust:
quote:On second thought, scrap that idea, the US would probably make unfounded claims that we were harboring terrorists or building weapons of mass destruction and bomb the crap out of us.
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What if we dont tell them were it is, or establish our location as "intangible?" :D
Actually this is a pretty good idea!
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