Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

[Life on Other Planets AKA Johns]

http://www.mipi.com.au/documents/NoexcuseforpirateDJs-13March2008homepage.pdf

I wonder if this will effect the electronic/underground DJ's or will it be mainly for commercial House/hiphop dj's..

[Dhar_2]

Re: Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

ballache!!

who is really gonna bother???

[jeffrey collins]

Re: Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

don't these fucking lawmakers have anything better to do with their time. what about all of us who get tracks from labels given to us? how do you prove that?

[Aleks_B]

Re: Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

wow, thats my WTF of the day.

[Steve Graham]

Re: Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

don't these fucking lawmakers have anything better to do with their time. what about all of us who get tracks from labels given to us? how do you prove that?

EXACTLY!

[AntonyM]

Re: Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

Can't wait to see those nobs try and enforce this thing
what a joke.

[pisana]

Re: Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

this is a piss take right?

if it's not then it's royally f*cked though on the other hand they have little in the way of enforcing it.

AND..if they do manage to ping someone, how do they justify the cost of the fine?

[jeffrey collins]

Re: Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

don't they pretty much do the same thing in Italian clubs. where they actually check your cd's.

[Steve Graham]

Re: Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

how is checking your cd's going to tell you if a track was paid for, downloaded for free or given to you thru a promo email?

its all bul shit, and a way to try to make some easy money for the gubment

[jeffrey collins]

Re: Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

you apparently have to have the receipts on you for each track.

[Steve Graham]

Re: Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

thats fucked up! they cant police that shit.. fuck them.. maybe top 40 and main stream music "djs" errr, juke boxes.. what a fucking joke

[chuckc]

Re: Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

wow 65k fine and 5 years prison time for first offense.

[Steve Graham]

Re: Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

sorry, but i dont pay for more than half of the the stuff i play, and its not because i steal it, it come from lables.. so fuck them

[Yao]

Re: Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

Yeah this pisses me off as well, it's almost like the govt that always tries to find new taxes to get your money. Panicattacks all the around the music industry with the digital formats going round, they're just trying to stay in control of the music which was so much easier when you didn't have downloads and mp3's.

On the other hand: dance music scene has always been partially underground with tracks being given out as promos and stuff, there's so much music that hasn't been paid for but given that laws like these make as much sense as slapping my dick into a bowl of yoghurt...

[Steve Graham]

Re: Aussie DJs now need a license to leave the bedroom

^^^ beautiful analogy mate, lol