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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. Re:Better Quality? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    [marketroid] Oh and make sure we use professional burners for our kiosks so we can claim superior sound quality.
    [engineer] What do you mean?
    [marketroid] I used to copy my stuff at a friend's place because he had a superior cassette deck. I want people to feel the same way with our kiosks.
    [engineer] But... cassettes are analog, cd's are digital!
    [marketroid] Hey kid, I'm the manager here. Do your job and I do mine, mmmkay? Now get lost.

  2. DigitalPiracy.com by ROBOKATZ · · Score: 0, Troll
    When did slashdot.org become digitalpiracy.com? The last five articles have been all about supporting digital piracy.

    Some of us are not poor and don't care, because we can actually afford not to steal all our entertainment.

  3. Re:It's a sting operation... by Wild+Wizard · · Score: 0, Troll

    we don't have the RIAA here we have ARIA

    yet another stupid american opens his mouth *sigh*

  4. ITS ARIA NOT RIAA by Wild+Wizard · · Score: 0, Troll

    i see stupid americans, their everywhere

  5. Re:Don't mod this up by Disevidence · · Score: 1, Troll

    Shhhh... don't point out most slashbot's are hypocritical, they don't like it when you do that.

    Woops...

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  6. Re:Who's the Author? by juliao · · Score: 1, Troll
    world- first plan that legalises [sic] music piracy

    It's spelled "legalizes" in America, but it's spelled "legalises" in Britain, Australia, Canada, et al. There is no need for the "[sic]".

    And it's spelled "sick", not "sic". Altough I wouldn't go so far as saying that the whole concept of legalising-an-illegal-activity-that-was-legal-most -of-the-time-after-all is "sick". Stupid, yes, but sick is maybe a bit too much. [sorry, too much time without my red pill... and yes, I do know what "sic" means. It's something about that girl, Gloria Mundi, right?]

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