New law!! for music cd/dvd owned, you're no longer allowed to copy songs for private use

This is really interesting. Nobody really rips CDs any more but adding a tax to flash memory and hard drives certainly will be a good earner for rights holders even if consumers don't actually use it for anything related to music. Adding disks to a SAN or server? Yep, taxes for music rights holders regardless of use.
 
This is a message to the gov't / music industry etc:

My hard drive has a rip of my entire CD collection so that I can use my computer at home as a jukebox. My phone has a 64GB SD card, which also has a copy of my CD collection so that I can play them on my travels.

C'mon, take it from me, I dare you!

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they suggested that a tax should be applied to blank media including blank CDs, hard drives, memory sticks and other blank media
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:rolleyes:
Why don't they tax us at birth in case we hum a tune without consent
 
Burnsy2023 said:
This is really interesting. Nobody really rips CDs any more but adding a tax to flash memory and hard drives certainly will be a good earner for rights holders even if consumers don't actually use it for anything related to music. Adding disks to a SAN or server? Yep, taxes for music rights holders regardless of use.
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It's not particularly interesting, it just seems that they're trying anything they can to increase revenue, even if it is ridiculous.
 
Most music collectors rip their stuff to HDD. I do. CDs and when I can get a decent table, my vinyl. It is simply easier to search through. And music collectors are the ones actually buying music. Mind you, I tend to get old stuff second hand. New stuff I buy in batches from the US because I can get it cheaper and avoid the import taxes by only spending so much at a time and it's still cheaper than buying the CDs new from Amazon. New stuff I'll only buy direct from artists through Bandcamp or smaller labels if I can.

Japanese releases tend to have a lot of extra stuff on their pressings which is unique to Japan, because the hard copies are so expensive they do anything to stop people importing.
 
Am I right in saying the Music industry want the gov to tax Blank CDs and USB sticks, so the said music companies get a cut of the tax to cover piracy.

If thats the case we should all start our own music companies and get a cut :)
 
eatcustard said:
Am I right in saying the Music industry want the gov to tax Blank CDs and USB sticks, so the said music companies get a cut of the tax to cover piracy.

If thats the case we should all start our own music companies and get a cut :)
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I like your thinking. I'm just starting to learn the harmonica. I'm atrocious. With someone on keys we can market it as a delta blues, new orleans fusion group with influences from the likes of Van Morrison and Liverpool FCs stellar rap single "pass and move it's the Liverpool groove" and market it to beardy hipsters in Shoreditch.
 
We have a tax on storage media, it's quite small though. It's the reason the government didn't care about piracy until the EU complained, then the government had to make it illegal here to download films/music/etc... It was legal until just recently.

They still don't really enforce it, the government said that they won't be going after downloading consumers.
 
Huntyz said:
What a joke, poor artists they really are living in the gutter because of piracy.

No sympathy for multi millionaires whining they need more money.
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If I had even close to the money these idiots make I wouldn't give a flying monkeys what people did :D
 
Jokester said:
Most musicians struggle. They're not all multi-million selling, stadium filling mega groups.
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Nope, but is the ones with the record contracts that have problems with this or the ones performing live.

Pop artists may be used to making money from sales of CDs etc but classical and jazz artists make money from performing and teaching. Needless to say the more skilled people aren't really having a problem with this are they.
 
So its illegal for me to copy MY paid for music to another form of media for MY consumption. Good luck enforcing it to an entire nation who simply doesn't care about mundane laws like this. I shall be carrying on regardless.
 
Xordium said:
Nope, but is the ones with the record contracts that have problems with this or the ones performing live.

Pop artists may be used to making money from sales of CDs etc but classical and jazz artists make money from performing and teaching. Needless to say the more skilled people aren't really having a problem with this are they.
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Skill doesn't really come into though to be honest. It's a popularity game. A friend of mines son has a band, tours the UK and states and it pays the bills gives him a living. His last album was mentioned last year as being one of the top 10 Scottish albums of the year.

spotify and YouTube? I laughed when I heard how much he gets paid by them.

Only the very successful make even £100,000s a year out of it.
 
Let's have it right, like this is going to change a single persons behaviour. **** da Police.
 
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[FnG]magnolia;28201401 said:
I thought CDs, DVDs etc were sold under licence. I know the whole IP argument is circular but I'm not sure what this 'New Law!!' will actually do in practical terms.
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Hmm original licence was part of a contract - you entered into with the understanding of the original agreement. If subject to laws of the country now nullify that - nice way to screw people.

They just want people to stream.. then they want to charge you per play. That has been the preference of the music industry from the start.
 
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