In today’s news (National Post / Toronto Sun / Marketnews.ca), there are reports that copyright-related arrests were made at two karaoke bars in the Accordion City area. Here’s a snippet from the National Post story:

Staff at two Greater Toronto karaoke bars have been charged with copyright offences as part of an RCMP crackdown on illegal karaoke businesses.

While pursuing a complaint, RCMP officers determined that two karaoke bars were charging the public money to listen to and use karaoke music without copyright permission to do so, the RCMP said.

These people arrested were staff at K-Box Bar and Lounge in Richmond Hill (which, according to these docs [PDF], have run afoul of the law before — for serving after hours) and Club Mirage in Markham (also in trouble for a few violations [PDF], including serving minors), both of which are the “rent a room for you and your friends” style of karaoke club.

Joey deVilla

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  • Soo lame, welcome to our lame toronto. Karaoke bar copyright violation. Alot of those places asian cds that aren't even sold here.

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