RIAA clone kills karaoke
p2p news / p2pnet: RIAA clone the RIAM (Recording Industry Association of Malaysia) is doing a sterling job in Kuala Lumpur.
It’s turned karaoke into a krime through which perpetrators can be jailed for up to five years.
“People have been paying RM1 per song over the past two months to sing to their heart’s delight ….” says the New Straits Times.
But not any more, thanks to the Big Four record label cartel, which owns the RIAA, RIAM and all the other pseudo-trade organizations that exist to try to sue ‘consumers’ into consuming poor quality cartel ‘product’.
The organization says the singers were using ‘pirated’ software and, “The operators took a hit yesterday when Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry enforcement officers raided Pertama Complex in Kuala Lumpur,” says the story, going on:
“The members of the Intellectual Protection Unit seized 20 jukeboxes in an operation called ‘Ops Tulen Music 2’. It was the first raid of its kind as the kiosks are a relatively new trend. The enforcement team seized 20 television sets, 20 computers, 40 microphones, 40 speakers and four computer servers, which contained 14,161 songs.”
Now the owner of these kiosks faces a minimum penalty of RM2,000 (more than $525) per song, or jail not exceeding five years, or both, says the New Straits Times.
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New Straits Times – Karaoke kiosks raided, October 21, 2005
October 23rd, 2005 at 10:54 pm
I wouldn’t have ever believed this would happen… now they want to take our right to sing away from us… @_@… *starts thinking violent thoughts* >=[
October 24th, 2005 at 12:47 am
Finally something is being done about this modern scourge of society. I wish they would start busting Karaoke bars where I live. Then I wouldn’t have to put up with drunken old hags with laddered stockings belting out Tina Turner ‘classics’ when I try to go out for a quiet pint. Who in their right mind could call that entertainment. Do you think people would actually go to listen to karaoke sober?…. No? I didn’t think so. It’s the Jerry Springer of live entertainment. Shooting for the lowest common denominator and managing even to fall short of that. Let’s all laugh at those idiots who think they can still hold a tune after six rounds of Aftershock and a few pints. Squinting at the words with one eye squeezed shut, trying to eliminate the extra screens that are marching off into the middle distance. Grinning inanely at their mates.
But wait. I hope this doesn’t mean they are gonna start coming after the old pub cover bands too. Now that is a setting where drunken 50yr old women with laddered stockings do become entertainment!! Unless of course one of them manages to capture you for a dance as you sneak past to the bar. I find spilling beer on them often allows you that valuable time to escape in such situations. Anyway, I digress.
Karaoke is Krime, Karaoke is Krime. I’m gonna make some banners, start me a petition. whee hee
October 25th, 2005 at 3:13 pm
So when are they going to come after my stuffed Purple Dog that plays “Doggie in the window” when someone pulls the string?