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| CS |
By Anita Kazmierczak
in Australia
Australians under 18 years old could soon be barred from purchasing CDs by arists such as Eminem, the Rolling Stones, and Tori Amos, under a new restrictive classification.
The Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) and the Australian Music Retailers Association (AMRA) is revising the criteria for classification of CDs after talks with the government.
Currently, CDs containing strong language or themes such as violence, drug use, murder and suicide are rated as Level 1 (moderate impact) or Level 2 (strong impact) and labelled with a warning advisory sticker.
Under current CD monitoring, no CD is restricted for sale to anyone of any age.
But ARIA is advocating a new Level 3 standard for classifying CDs and for the first time certain CDs will restricted from sale to under 18s.
Too explicit
"We are talking about material that is quite extreme," said chief executive officer of ARIA, Stephen Peach.
The new classification will be similar to that applied to films by the Office of Film & Literature Classification (OFLC), where films deemed too explicit for under-18s are given a restricted, or R-rating.
"We think if there are CDs that are truly R-rated in content, then they shouldn't be sold to under 18 year olds.
"It's just simply applying community standards that apply already to film, television, videos and video games," said Peach. The changes have come about following about 100 complaints to the government, ARIA and the OFLC, in the last year.
A Queensland Christian mother of five children, who will only identify herself to the media as "Robin", has been leading a campaign to have all CDs containing explicit material completely banned for sale to all Australians.
ARIA and AMRA are bringing in the voluntary industry code to prevent the Australian Government stepping in with its own CD classification laws.
Marilyn Manson, Missy Elliott, Nick Cave, Oasis, Jennifer Lopez and popular Australian acts Grinspoon and dance act Machine Gun Fellatio are among artists currently labelled Level 2 and will be under review for the new Level 3 classification.
"Consumers have the right to know what they are purchasing, and for those with children this is even more important," executive officer of AMRA, Ian Harvey said.
He added: "The revised code provides clear, understandable advice plus the new Level 3 classification will protect minors from gaining access to what is adult material."
There are already murmurs among record companies that the new classification will lead to further drops in CD sales, as minors may illegally copy restricted music with CD burners.
The amended code will be brought in from March 2003 by ARIA and AMRA
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| gypsymofo60 |
What a joke! They can't even control the sale of alcohol to minors, let alone recorded music. "Excuse me sonny, but are you old enough?".... |
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| Highwire Rob |
And we just learned today in Pittsburgh, PA that our Mayor Murphy is considering a 10% additional alcohol tax on beer & spirits in our city bars!!!??? For a debt plagued city, he plans on raising $10 million for emergency services.
We Pittsburghers still have to go to "State Stores" (State Government owned) to buy our wine and liquor. Furthermore, we can't even purchase beer in the supermarket!
Man, I live in a great shot & a beer town but I'm with you on the outrage towards asinine politics!
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| Strange_Stray_Cat |
You all better move to Holland; beer and wine are being sold in the supermarket en no one will ask you for an id when you want to purchase liquor...and one can buy weed on every street... |
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| fmk438j |
I think it's a beat up. I haven't heard a word about this. The author put the stones in the opening for no good reason. I would bet my life no stones album will ever be under restricted sale. But when you think about it, this would robably be great as all the 'kids' would go "hey we gotta get our hands on that restricted stones album, it must be cooool!"
I'd be really surprised if any disc gets restricted. Notice they said 'extreme material'. The only things would be cannibal corpse or cradle of filth etc., but i'd still be surprised to even see that happen.
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| gypsymofo60 |
Yeah! I agree! When was the last time a Stones song/album was really considered subversive, or pornographic?..Star,Star?.....Undercover Of The Night? They could never control that, TV's worse than any CD these days. |
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| sonicrock |
anyway censoring never worked it s only make whatever more attractive.....people always purchase what is forbidden |
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| Moonisup |
quote:
CS wrote:
By Anita Kazmierczak
in Australia
Australians under 18 years old could soon be barred from purchasing CDs by arists such as Eminem, the Rolling Stones, and Tori Amos, under a new restrictive classification.
whahaahaha Tori amos and the Rolling stones whahaha
this must be a joke |
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| corgi37 |
It aint a joke, i read the article too. But, its mainly a beat up. The Oz family association sticking their beaks into people's business again. Some form of censorship was supposed to save the minds of kids under 18 years ago with stickers on cd's warning of offensive language. Worked a treat too. Every kid under 18 HAD to have an album with a sticker on it. I love the way they try to ban things. Same with porn and violent games. They ban them, we download them for nix off the net. Hopefully, if a ban is going to happen, all those crappy boy bands, Celine Dion cd's and disco music will be banned. Should of happened years ago. |
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