Comments on: UK police being sued for playing radio too loud

By: Pete Moring

Pete Moring — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:58:55 +0000

In the UK, we have a police force ‘filled’ with boy-racers on heat.
They love the ‘chase’, the adrenalin rush, the capture of some 13 year old car thief almost as much as they love booking motorists for eating a Mars bar while driving.

Give them a burglary, or an physical assault to deal with and you’ll wait a very long time indeed.

So I say “Good on yer” to the performing rights society.
Why should thee police have one law for them, and another for US. If ‘we’ play our radio on a building site, we can get the site shut down by these ‘wallies’ for exactly THAT same reason.

Give them a taste of their own medicine.

Pete.

By: D-mon

D-mon — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:43:56 +0000

In the Netherlands, there the ‘Stichting Brein’ (the ‘Brain Foundation’) who collect fees on all data carriers. And I mean everything: CDRW’s, DVDR’s and even DAT-tapes. They are even planning on putting fees on data storage, such as harddiscs, because you COULD store some licensed material on it.
They are in charge of redistributing the collected fees among the artists who obviously have their work pirated, so they do not miss revenue.
Unfortunately, Brein works so inefficiently that they can not track down most of the artists they say they owe money to, so they keep the money until they DO find them. Yah, riiiight….

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:35:33 +0000

Here in Canada, a similar organisation collects fee for companies who want to play music to phone callers on hold, but that whole “playing music too loud” thing is completely ridiculous.

If we follow that logic and I decide to throw a summer dance party in my backyard, playing music that all my neighbords can overhear, I basically should be paying copyright fees… Duh.