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

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

iPat,

It isn't new in England, or in the US? 'Cos in the summer it's common to 
take radios to pools or beaches. Admittedly, the music played by many is 
not that great, and maybe it could violate noise ordinances, etc., if 
played too loudly -- but the idea of it property theft for others' ears 
to hear the audio is a bit absurd, no...? I've never heard of the law in 
the US before this, but with how insane music companies are becoming 
with property rights, it seems par for the course.

Also, Harvard Bookstore recently said the prices of its textbooks were 
"intellectual property." Kids were copying down the prices in the store, 
to take and compare the prices at other stores. Kids caught copying down 
the prices were kicked out and told they were violating intellectual 
property laws.

-Oliver




iPat wrote:

> 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 

> <mailto: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

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

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>     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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