Be warned : Company fined US$1 Million for MP3 usage

[Lycia]

[quote]Originally posted by EvilCabbage:
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I dont know if they would have got away with that, either. When a music CD is purchased, you are not supposed to play it in public / otherwise distribute it.

Hell, pubs & music stores (even gaming stores) play music in their establishments, but this is a technicality. I think condoning the use of MP3's to your employees shouldnt be compared.. its another ballgame altogether really..</strong><hr></blockquote>


I think you can play it in public, you just can't charge them to listen...(?)

Anyway, I am basing that on an incident a few years ago..I was at a comic convention which charged about 4 bucks to get in, once inside they had several big screens showing Anime and SCI-FI, etc...some where someone from the government(?) found out and told the organizer that he was commiting a crime by charging people to enter then view the movies. All he had to do was move the TVs out side of where the line for admission and everything was cool...

[Larommi]

[quote]Originally posted by EvilCabbage:
<strong>

I dont know if they would have got away with that, either. When a music CD is purchased, you are not supposed to play it in public / otherwise distribute it.

Hell, pubs & music stores (even gaming stores) play music in their establishments, but this is a technicality. I think condoning the use of MP3's to your employees shouldnt be compared.. its another ballgame altogether really..</strong><hr></blockquote>

Pubs in the states can legally play music through a Jukebox. Any inhouse music, you must pay a fee to ASCAP and/or BMI for public performance of pre-recorded music.

To have an MP3 on a public domain server is the same as having them on Morpheus.

[Larommi]

[quote]Originally posted by Daemon:
<strong>this is old, companies get sued all the time for mp3 usage. There not free. Just convert all your mp3's to OGG files.

OGG is the free open standard music files.

Winamp pluging for ogg files [windows]
<a href="http://www.ogg-vorbis.com/downloads.asp" target="_blank">http://www.ogg-vorbis.com/downloads.asp</a>

Mp3 to OGG converter (shareware $18) [windows]
<a href="http://www.8to32.com/" target="_blank">http://www.8to32.com/</a></strong><hr></blockquote>


MP3 or OGG does not matter. If you did not pay for the music you do not have the right to take it or distribute it.