[Military family member]

While I'm not sure if this bill contains this part of the law, the RIAA has been wanting to prevent people from downloading music from CDs onto their iPods or other MP# plays, or even their computers.

The way the RIAA has operated is through third-party enforcers. An individual shows up at a bar, with ID, and askes to see your licensing for all the music you are playing. For example, at a friends bar, she playing CDs she had purchased legally on a stereo she had purchased legally, and ended up paying RIAA $20,000 to clear up the legal mess. The guy with the ID got 10% of the take.

[weegee]

Yet another reason to dj from vinyl. They are too dumb to know when something is a grey market repress or licensed reissue. But computers they know.

[Darkwolf377]

An individual shows up at a bar, with ID, and askes to see your licensing for all the music you are playing. For example, at a friends bar, she playing CDs she had purchased legally on a stereo she had purchased legally, and ended up paying RIAA $20,000 to clear up the legal mess. The guy with the ID got 10% of the take.

You have to pay public performance fees. That's been around a long time, long before ipods or CDs.

I have no problem with people being paid for the use of the things they create. I didn't know that was suddenly considered a non-conservative idea.

[Arguendo]

For example, at a friends bar, she playing CDs she had purchased legally on a stereo she had purchased legally, and ended up paying RIAA $20,000 to clear up the legal mess.

That's because what she was doing was illegal. Since she ran a bar she probably knew that, but figured she could get away with it without paying the performance fees. She was wrong.