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ARIA Sells a Licence for DJs to Format Shift Music
lucas writes "The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has set up a new licence to let DJs format shift their music to use at gigs.
DJs will need to pay a licence fee to copy music they already own legally from one format to another for ease of use, and as a back-up in case originals get lost or stolen.
Criminal penalties for DJs involved in "music piracy" are up to sixty thousand dollars and 5 years imprisonment. There are also on-the-spot fines of over one thousand dollars."
I know the law in Australia asshole, I live here. Can you say the same?
How we know is more important than what we know.
Compared to the USA, Australia is a paradise. It was even better before our previous Prime Minister virtually sold our soul's to that bastard currently running the USA into the ground. We are now signatories to the very same DRM goodness promulgated by the US legislature.
/. look & feel?
If you read RTFA, you would be aware that its a sister organisation to the RIAA making the waves here. (Heil indeed, you are probably from the same country that has a department called "homeland security". Now that really sounds like a facist organisation! (Papers please: Vot!, Dis is not a REALID(tm).
PS: Our previous prime minister has now got a permanent brown spot on the end of his nose from licking GW's arse!
PPS: Most of the shit Australia is in can be directly attributed to the USA. When the USA farts, the rest of the world needs to check to insure they didn't accidentally follow through!
Whats with the new
"DJs" spin records (or CDs) - hence the name "disc jockeys". Playing tracks off a hard drive (or a MP3 player) is not "DJing". Any iPod can be set to random shuffle. Does that make the iPod a "DJ"? I would also imagine it is a little harder to know the DJ has a license to play the tracks off a hard drive. It is a little easier to verify when the DJ has actual records or CDs.
"But this one goes to 11!"