wow...is this the only thing you post? ive seen it in multiple places now. this forum is for djing, not for mafiaa employees to recruit more brainwashed lemmings! take your propaganda elsewhere. It's disgusting that the music industry execs (aka the ones who make money off other people's talent) use these scare tactics to try get people to pay for licenses they do not need. The reality is that you will only run into problems if: - You do not buy your tracks (like wtf are you thinking? support the people who made it possible to be a dj! its like $3 a track) - You try to sell your demos (making money from music without a license is asking for an audit) - You are playing at an unlicensed venue (order of responsibility for licensing is traditionally venue->promoter->dj, just ask the promoter if your not sure, but all clubs are covered) tekstepa: technically (according to the scaremongers) you should be paying thousands of dollars a year for the "privilege" to hand out 4 demo cds to your friends/promoters/whatever. in real life however, you are unlikely to be targeted unless you are exchanging said demos for money. I believe in protection of the rights of artists, performers (including djs) and consumers (the people paying for the music) NOT protection of the rights of the companies that can make money fining people for infringements, and believe me there IS a difference. I pay for my music and I have never been paid for playing a gig, I do it to entertain regular people not get some fat exec another Lexus. This outrageous claim that it is illegal to use a computer outside of home to play music better be backed up with some solid facts because I just wasted an hour of my day trolling websites to verify it and have found nothing. I buy my music digitally, I download it to the computer that is hooked up to serato (which I also bought), so it is perfectly legal for me to use said computer to play said legal tracks at a club. Australian copyright laws are ridiculous and no-one can be expected to follow them to the exact letter. They do not protect the consumer in any way. It is illegal to backup music you bought to protect it, if the cd you paid for gets scratched and is unusable you have to pay for another cd. The 'smart' person, who makes a copy of the cd and plays that, leaving the original in a safe place is a dirty criminal bastard who, according to the OP, deserves to have their equipment destroyed and massive fines/jail terms . If you buy a song for your iPod, you cannot play it on your car cd player. I break the law every time I play out without my laptop because I have 'format-shifted' my music from digital to cd. Welcome to a draconian society. It is morally wrong, but it will be years before any change happens. I am not a copyright expert, I do not make money of have a job from knowing who is violating copyright law (aka who can I sue) so feel free to correct me on the 'correct' law. All I know is what is fair use of music, regardless of the mafiaa's definition of fair use. Stop trying to scare people, if this was an unbiased non-opinionated informational thread about the rules and regulations you wouldn't piss people off and they would be a lot more open to learning and obeying the law if they weren't being treated like a criminal from the start.
