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SABAM Wants Truckers To Pay For Listening To Radio

Posted by Soulskill on from the tell-us-of-your-plight dept.

guruevi writes "SABAM, the Belgian RIAA, wants truckers to start paying for the copyrights to listen to the radio in their cabin (Google translation of Dutch original). SABAM already has a system in place to extract fees from businesses for having radios in the work area for businesses with more than 9 employees, and they find that truckers' cabins are areas of work and thus infringe on their copyrights. The local politicians think this is going too far; they believe truckers need a radio for safety reasons and view a truck cabin as 'an intimate place.'"

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  1. Ah thanks, but this is slashdot by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks for clearing that much up. But I, and I am sure lots of other slashdotters, am still unclear on one detail.

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    1. Re:Ah thanks, but this is slashdot by PwnzerDragoon · · Score: 5, Funny

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