Selling used CDs in Florida something akin to getting arrested.

jargojargo
edited May 2007 in conversations
New "pawn shop" laws are springing up across the United States that will make selling your used CDs at the local record shop something akin to getting arrested. No, you won't spend any time in jail, but you'll certainly feel like a criminal once the local record shop makes copies of all of your identifying information and even collects your fingerprints. Such is the state of affairs in Florida, which now has the dubious distinction of being so anal about the sale of used music CDs that record shops there are starting to get out of the business of dealing with used content because they don't want to pay a $10,000 bond for the "right" to treat their customers like criminals.

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Comments

  • chrischris
    edited 1:55PM
    "The legislation is supposed to stop the sale of counterfeit and/or stolen music CDs, despite the fact that there has been no proof that this is a particularly pressing problem for record shops in general."

    hehe! law makers, it's time to sit back and consider things before agreeing to something which may turn out to be fucking stupid. that is all :)
  • jargojargo
    edited 1:55PM
    Maybe I should have put this in the sheesh thread.
  • ihcihc
    edited 1:55PM
    that was the case in cardiff when i was studying there

    if you got burgled - it was easy to track down any of your limited edition cds to one of several cash converters or second hand record stores

    student house burgelries were becoming commonplace so the police instigated this exact system - nothing to do with counterfeiting at that time
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