GEMA does business for other collecting societies as well. You don't have to be a member to be collected for. It's sufficient to be a member of a cooperating society. Ralf, is it possible to mark such baseless ramblings OT or even keep them off the list at all?  If I'd care for your views about doing drugs or criminalisation of homosexuality, I might have joined the appropriate mailing list already. Beyond that, there are problems about GEMA, geofscked content and copyright law that deserve a more differenciated discourse than fishing for laughs tabloid style.  What you write neither funny nor true. Please stop. Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> schrieb am 19.01.2013 14:04: Artists of the Universal Music Group likely are members of the GEMA, even if they aren't Germans. If they catch you when smoking weed in Germany, the sentence isn't very hard, but if they catch you playing copyright music of GEMA members you are done. Some countries completely don't care about copyrights , but they kill you if you're smoking weed. When in Rome, do as the Romans do! -- No good deed ever goes unpunished. Einer guten Tat folgt die Strafe auf dem Fuße! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev(a)lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev