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Australia To Legalize VCR Recording and CD Ripping
paritosh writes "While the rest of the world is trying to figure out how to stop the assault of anti-consumer intellectual property laws, Australia is breaking free from them." From the article: "See, it is currently illegal in Australia to record shows off the telly, or to transferbangle (Australian for copy) music from CDs to portable music players. The end result is that a large portion of of the Australian citizenry are technically breaking the law, and while that may not sit poorly with a nation born of criminality, it makes the legal system look a tad bit ridiculous. Could you imagine shipping all of those offenders to Madagascar?"
Heh! Looks like 2006 is gonna be a great year! Australia is already there.
No way, mate!
It's a "repostbangle".
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
These "Criminals" shouldnt be legalized, they should be fined and jailed! If people are allowed to use products they own in a way the "copyright" owners dont agree with, IT WILL BE THE END OF CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT!
civil disobedience, its whats for dinner.
It's a perfectly cromulent word!
With spending like this, exactly what are "conservatives" conserving?
As a Canadian, I'd just like to invite them to send more of these "filles du roy". ;)
Even my d in kind duplicated.....
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In aussie jailes they serve american beer.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
In other news, Australians anticipate being allowed to record Television on DVDs by the year 2035.
This is not a dream, not a dream...we are transmitting from the year 1-9-9-9.
Cool, Now I can toss out my DVR and get my old VCR's out of the attic and start recording. Anybody know where to find blank VHS tapes?
When a "transferbangle" doesn't worked because the source is DRM'd it becomes a "transferbungle."
Fritz Hollings just suggested to W. that Australia probably has WMDs.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
I know where I want to move to. Somewhere where they're only just now allowing you to record TV with your VCR?
Love him or hate him, the man's got a unique way with words. I wonder if his daughters transferbangle?
3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.
> I'm Australian
Are you now?
And we just have to take your word for it?
> What a crock of shit.
Oh, right.
Sorry to have doubted you, mate.
Boags, James Squire, Hahn are my favorite. However, beware, starting a flamewar between Aussies on their beer will make all the great ones (MS/FOSS, vi/emacs, etc) pale into insignificance.
Pax.
We also would have accepted "I'd have called them chazzwazzers".
- Gee, Taco, I'm pisching drunk here. Schee thisch sctory here? I'm gonna appraprove it. *hic* Right nowish.
- Slow down, Cowboy, you're too drunk. Go login as Zonk first and no one'll notice.
- Good idea, bosch. I'm on it like... *hic* Whatever. Now, where did that wittle Schubmit button go? Here, button!
Money for nothing, pix for free
Do they have the metric system? Do they know what the f--- a quarter pounder is?
"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces." --Aldo Leopold (Paraphrased)
Then come to Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/03/31/canada/downlo ad_court040331
However, do keep in mind that you must marry a member of the same sex. It isn't optional anymore and we are very strict about that.
what on earther is "math" ? Is that some retarded/american version of the term "maths" that the rest of the english speaking world use ?