Making copies of all of your identifying information and even collecting your fingerprints

[SmoochyTX]

This is absolutely crazy! Anybody live in Florida that can attest to this? If you're in Utah, has anything like this happened to you while selling a CD to a local pawn shop? Rhode Island and Wisconsin citizens, pay attention because it's coming to you soon.

There are a few things lawmakers have decided really ought to be handled with the "care and oversight" that only the government can provide: e.g., tax collection, radioactive materials, biohazards, guns, and CDs. CDs? No, I'm not talking about financial Certificates of Deposit, though that might make more sense. I'm talking about Compact Discs.

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.

You can read the rest here.

 

[FoBoT]

just sell them on half.com

 

[Linflas]

No sanity will come to the current copyright mess until people make their voices through the electorial process speak louder than the money spread around congress by the RIAA/MPAA.

 

[SpanishFry]

wow

 

[JRich]

I use my old CDs for target practice.

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: JRich
I use my old CDs for target practice.

For that there all them guns? You hope to hit it in the center?

 

[hanoverphist]

they do make a cool sparkly cloud when you hit em tho dont they?

 

[alkemyst]

yeah california and new york also have similar laws. It's about car break-ins mostly. I have known 2 people that have had 500+ CD's jacked from their cars. The advent of big cd cases and changers makes it easy.

Anyway...things like craigslist and ebay should make selling legal cd's more profitable than going to a pawn shop for next to nothing.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: Linflas
No sanity will come to the current copyright mess until people make their voices through the electorial process speak louder than the money spread around congress by the RIAA/MPAA.

Exactly. Besides, I'd much rather steal music than pay for it.

How is that hard to understand?

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
just sell them on half.com

But why should somebody have to go through all this just to sell some CDs at their local pawn shop? Are they going to start taking down info on anybody buying the CDs as well eventually?

 

[JRich]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak

Originally posted by: JRich
I use my old CDs for target practice.

For that there all them guns? You hope to hit it in the center?

Nawwwww... I like them purty sparklies when theyz go POP.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Why the hell would someone put up with this? Assuming I was dumb enough to pawn CDs instead of selling them on a local bulletin board/eBay/FST/etc, I'd just tell them to go "copulate vigorously with" themselves if they asked for my ten-card.

- M4H

 

[ryan256]

Originally posted by: Linflas
No sanity will come to the current copyright mess until people make their voices through the electorial process speak louder than the money spread around congress by the RIAA/MPAA.

I whole heartedly agree. The problem is the uneducated sheep (which is sadly a majority) aren't paying attention to this during election time. They are too busy watching the fireworks and mud slinging.