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CD Copying Kiosks Endorsed in Australia

Posted by timothy on from the very-polite-pirates-these-days dept.

Iron Sun writes: "While the story is somewhat misleading in stating that the plan legalises piracy, CD copying kiosks have been given the go ahead here in Australia. It will be interesting to see what the Australian Recording Industry Association says about this. Supposedly the plan involves royalty payments to ARIA, but where artists stand is not discussed."

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  1. Choosing your truth by jon_eaves · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the article, we have this comment,
    Michael Speck, of ARIA's anti-piracy investigations unit, said: "Any request or application that is made of the industry is not just point-blank rejected. This is very much a case of watch this space.

    "There are many legitimate uses for CD burners. However, experience has shown illegitimate uses as well."

    So, when music sales are down, it's because of those damn pirates, but when we can get somebody to pay us, regardless of our principles, then it's a legitimate use.

    Yeah, riiight...

  2. definitions? by Eythian · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If ``music piracy'' is defined as something similar to ``the illegal copying of music'', then how can the sentence ``plan that legalises music piracy'' be parsed? Once its legal, its no longer piracy.

  3. Royalties by serps · · Score: 5, Interesting
    "...AMCOS said it would endorse the CD-pirating kiosks for a standard royalty of about 6 per cent."

    Yet another case of taxing everyone for the deeds of the few. Unfortunately, Australia has no laws about fair use (ok, they do have exemptions in their version of the DMCA, but only if the material wasn't copy-protected in the first place) so I guess it's better than expected.

    Since we're paying royalties, does this mean we're entitled to copy and give these copied CDs away? After all, the artist is being compensated so it's not stealing, is it?

    --
    "Einstein argued that [...] God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer." ~ Brooks
  4. Location, location, location by NewtonsLaw · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hey, if I were flogging these kiosks I'd have one outside every music store in the country.

    Customer walks in to music store, looks for suitably copy-protected CD, pays his money, leaves the store, turns left at the doorway, pays his $5 walks back into the store with original CD in one hand, the dupicate in his left, steps up to the counter and says "I want my money back, it won't play in my CD player."

    Money changes hands, customer walks out with his new $5 CD.

    Six months later the RIAA can't understand why the guy who operates these kiosks now has a bigger house, faster car and larger boat than any of the recording company bosses :-)