Is It Illegal To Posess Unmarked CDs In Texas?
from the be-careful... dept
btr1701 points us to an odd (and slightly disturbing) story about a prisoner in Texas. Most of the story is about the fact that the guy is ridiculously obese and had been able to sneak a gun into prison in between flabs of skin, which was totally missed on a bunch of searches. But, btr1701 points out that the reason the guy was arrested in the first place was because he was apparently selling bootleg CDs. According to the article, he was "charged with possessing or selling unlabeled recordings." Now, I can sort of, maybe, kinda see why selling unlabeled recordings could be a violation of the law (though, even that seems questionable). But, possessing unlabeled recordings? How is that against the law? Does this mean that anyone who burns some music to a blank CD-R could be in trouble? Anyone in Texas have any more details on the real story here, because I'm hoping there's more to it.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Silly me, WHAT was I thinking???
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Wha wha what!!!
I guess I would like to know how possession of an unlabeled recording is 3rd degree felony? Anyone got any answers on that one... And as far as the gun goes... no wonder they couldn't find it he was 500+ lbs. and never had to go through a metal detector or be wanded.
Now I know someone who was a prison guard for quite some time... and all the inmates were required to go through metal detectors and be wanded, but she told me there were a few times when some of the larger ones would get in with some sort of metal weapon becuase the metal detectors couldn't penetrate the mounds of fat and flesh...
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does the label have to be correct?
sometimes i accidentally spell "New Kids On The Block" as "Child Pornography". i have an old label maker and the keys are right next to each other.
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:-)
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VRP
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Houston Chronicle
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Did you mean blank-CDR?
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Uh, Illinois...
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?DocName=072000050K16-8
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Re: Uh, Illinois...
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And you can tell the difference how?
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Up for sale a brand newly burned CD with some unidentified sounds supposedly from a recent UFO landing. I have not marked the CD, since I am not sure what kind of sound it is.
Bidders from IL - please do not bother bidding. It's illegal in your state!
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I could type a line of text in my notepad and save it in the discs, and they would have to be classified as recording, wouldn't them?
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"A person commits unlawful use of unidentified sound or audio visual recordings when he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly or negligently for profit manufactures, advertises or offers for sale, sells, distributes, transports, vends, circulates, performs, leases, or possesses for such purposes, unidentified sound or audio visual recordings or causes the manufacture, advertisement or offer for sale, sale, distribution, transportation, vending, circulation, performance, lease, or possession for such purposes, unidentified sound or audio visual recordings."
Note, the phrase "for profit". It sounds that if you aren't doing this for profit, then you aren't in violation of the statute. I think I'll ask my lawyer (I live in Illinois) who owes me a couple of hours quid pro quo for some work I did on his computers.
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He should have moved to Canada
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I am Canadian! Tax the Sh*t out of Me!
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Illegal to cross the border with CD-Rs
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No such law.
However, Sec. 641.051 specifically forbids unauthorized duplication of recordings for sale, and Sec. 641.054 addresses unlabeled recordings for sale.
I think your avg. Joe Blow isn't looking to sell that mix CD he's listening to on his way to work, so wouldn't be prosecutable under those statutes.
For reference: Business and Commerce Code Title 14 - Chapter 641
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Unidentified - vs unauthorised
Are the people who wrote this law sane?
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You're safe under this particular law. But there are so many others... 8^)
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You're safe under this particular law. But there are so many others... 8^)
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...Unidentified - vs unauthorised
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