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ARIA Sells a Licence for DJs to Format Shift Music

Posted by samzenpus on from the next-up-a-whistling-tax dept.

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."

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  1. In other news... by jd · · Score: 3, Funny

    The AIRA declared all Australians to be DJs, and that converting from optical media to an electronic signal in a player (and then from the electronic signal to an audible one) were conversions requiring a license. Botany Bay is to be used to house all juveniles who fail to pay the double licenses.

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    1. Re:In other news... by Slimee · · Score: 5, Funny

      Botany Bay is to be used to house all Botany Bay is actually quite a nice place now. The people we really don't like get sent to Woomera, Christmas Island and Naru. I seem to remember a country that sent people it didn't like to another island too a long time ago...hmmmmm
    2. Re:In other news... by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ah! And the ones you hate, loath and despise, you exile to Canberra.

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    3. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ah! And the ones you hate, loath and despise, you exile to Canberra. Amnesty are currently investigating this as being excessively cruel.
    4. Re:In other news... by bemo56 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well we have a rather bad immigration system, but we are not cruel enough to force immigrants to put up with our politicians :P

    5. Re:In other news... by AstrumPreliator · · Score: 2, Funny

      You forgot Ceti Alpha V.

    6. Re:In other news... by Gideon+Fubar · · Score: 3, Funny

      yes, yes, we're all aware of that. Our last government was keen to show us that our British Overlords were right to send us here, for a myriad of reasons.

      this latest lot.. well, they haven't really shown a position on it yet, afaik.

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  2. Dumb and dumber by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Beam me up scotty, no intellegent life here...

  3. Re:No "fair use" in Australia by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

    I curse the ARIA with a plague of Rolf Harrises! And may they never guess what it is!

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  4. Re:So when are they going to stop calling it buyin by QuantumG · · Score: 2, Funny

    About the same time they stop calling it "theft".

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  5. ARIA is an anagram of RIAA: figures! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Look, it's THEM. They just shuffled the letters around a bit. So don't act so surprised, I guess they ran a bit out of dead people and children to sue in the US (as a side effect of the living ones starting to call their bluff).