[kj] OT: If Anyone Can Hear Your Radio, You're a Pirate!

[Janean Lancaster]

Yes, my other half tells me the local hairdresser's has to have a licence to have the damn radio on too.  Never more than 10 people in there...

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of iPat
Sent: 11 October 2007 13:47
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: If Anyone Can Hear Your Radio, You're a Pirate!

 

this isnt new. the licence is that if (i think)10 people are listening to the radio then yo need a licence. Shops have had to do this for years. Thats why workshops stopped piping music through the tannoy as they used to do. 

As for speakers not being the size of an ear plug, all the shops better stop selling the current range of speakers that are currently in stock otherwiose they will be encouraging me to break the law!

On 10/11/07, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:

Good lord...

 

Record Industry: If Anyone Can Hear Your Radio, You Are A Pirate And A Thief <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/GearFactor/%7E3/167506693/record-industry.html> 

via Gadget Lab <http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/>  by Rob Beschizza on 10/9/07


 

<http://blog.wired.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/09/saysno.jpg> 

Like an infintely-growing fractal tree of bullshit, the record industry's inexplicable belief system grows ever crazier. The latest legal promulgation from one of its tendrils? According to Britain's Performing Rights Society, which collects royalties for the music industry, playing radios loud enough for other people to hear amounts to an unlicensed public performance. The punishment? Hundreds of thousands of dollars, please.

There are pros to this, mind you. First. when some kid's subwoofer-laden ricer lumbers down the street at 4 a.m., he is now a filthy pirate in addition to being a noise polluter. Second, workers at car-repair chain Kwik-Fit, the first to be targeted by this new legal campaign, will get back to fixing your 1986 Corolla instead of dancing the Macarena. 

And then there is the con: any speaker bigger than an earbud is now illegal, unless it is in a soundproofed room.

So, how do you think trying to own culture will work out for them?

The next Copycrime: "making hearable" rings up £200,000 copyright suit <http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071008-the-next-copycrime-making-hearable-rings-up-200000-copyright-suit.html> [Ars]

 


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