

Yet another example of irresponsible copyright enforcement rears its ugly head







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RE: Lost royalties?
By acase on 10/23/2009 11:14:41 AM , Rating: 2
I'm not sure that it is from pressure of the RIAA or not...but my fiance works at a Regions Bank, and they were told a few months ago that they were no longer allowed to play the radio where customers could hear it due to copyright infringement.

RE: Lost royalties?
By ClownPuncher on 10/23/2009 12:10:00 PM , Rating: 5
Sounds like a good time to be a gun owner.

RE: Lost royalties?
By stirfry213 on 10/23/2009 1:12:42 PM , Rating: 4
What is the difference between 1 public radio playing so that 100 people can hear it and 100 private radios playing so that 100 people can hear it? So is the RIAA/RPS gonna go after every punk and their brother for playing their car radios loud enough for others to hear it?

If you were charging people to listen to your radio... I could see that. Otherwise, I can't think of anything else to say about this other than... what the f*ck?

RE: Lost royalties?
By Jalek on 10/23/2009 11:24:05 PM , Rating: 2
They could just put lawyers on every streetcorner and they can run over to the window of any car playing music loud enough to be audible from the sidewalk and demand money.

I think there's a name for that already though..

RE: Lost royalties?
By ssjwes1980 on 10/24/2009 7:34:09 PM , Rating: 2
Sorry but where Im from you dont run up to peoples open windows on the street especially if there rides bumpin

RE: Lost royalties?
By Camikazi on 10/24/2009 10:51:10 PM , Rating: 2
Not even lawyers are dumb enough to make themselves targets like that :P Although it would drop the number of lawyers tremendously very quickly. Forget roadkill clean up, will need lawyer street cleanup!

