Copyright fines from karaoke set

For those who owns karaoke set customized with at least 20k karaoke songs at home (whole set bought with around RM2,000 to RM3,000>, you gotta beware of any spotcheck from government enforcement team.

A woman was fined up to RM40million for owning a karaoke set, preloaded with 20,000 pirate songs which found in her electrical appliances shop at Penang. It was said that the karaoke set which initially was not loaded with any song and it was imported from China with cost less than RM500. Referred to Copyright Act, she should have paid RM3 for the copyright of each song and RM60,000 for 20,000 songs in total.

It seems that our government has started to aware of digital piracy.