Australian Media 'Crooks' to Come in from the Cold

pagefault writes "News.com is reporting that millions of Australians who tape TV shows and copy CDs will soon get the right to do it with a clear conscience. From the article: 'The Federal Government will next year legalize the video recording of television shows for personal use, and the transfer of songs from CDs to MP3 players, in a bid to overturn a ban which has made criminals of much of the population."

Comments

Mass civil disobedience wins?

[cloricus]

I'm an Australian and I know of four police officers who are absolutely aware of my mp3(/ogg) collection. My collection is ripped from cd's that I legitimately own using sound-juicer and put onto my ipod using gtkpod. The police officers that have knowledge of this have part-taken in usage of my ipod to play these 'illegal' tracks and in three cases the officers themselves have children (or personally) who have mp3's both legal and illegal.

So I ask; how can the police enforce a law/requirement that they themselves do not respect? Further more I welcome this ruling from our great overlords (who I voted against) as it will stop most of the population being made criminals for using some thing (fairly) that they paid for. Kudos.

PS. Please don't arrest me and use this post* in court as an admittance of breaking the law!

*In the event that this post is used in the above fashion it is a complete fabrication! *Hides in his Bunker!

Just wait a year or two

[l33tlamer]

[US President]: Hey, I hear that you are letting your minions copying CDs down there. You do remember the agreement we had right?
[AUS President]: huh?
[US President]: The FREE trade agreement?
[AUS President]: Oh yeah, I forgot. Don't worry, should be fixed in a jiffy. Btw, I got to get back to Australia in a week. The people seems to get a bit worried when their president is away for more than a few months.
[US President]: Ok, I guess I can replace you with an intern. Go ahead and get out from underneath my desk.

All hail to our Yanky overlords. I, as an Australian, welcome our inclusion into the United States of America as its newest state. I also welcome renaming our parliament to "Congress" and our Prime Minister to "President". One can only hope that the states will outsource its prison facilities over here.

Re:Everyone's a criminal!

[Darius Jedburgh]

Do they teach nothing more than that in other places around the world?

That's just a stereotype picked up from TV. The stuff about Australia that's taught in schools in the rest of the world is quite different. In fact, just for reference I'm putting the entire history of Australia that's taught in the US in the remainder of this comment:

Re:Everyone's a criminal!

[Fred_A]

Drink it ? Is that what you're supposed to do with it ?
I use it to kill weeds and small children.