Australia To Legalize VCR Recording and CD Ripping

Posted by Zonk on Saturday December 31, 2005 @07:28AM from the welcome-to-the-twenty-first-century dept.

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?"

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Fosters Beer is Laughable in AU by Blahbooboo3 · 2005-12-31 07:45 · Score: 5, Informative

From the article: "Someone get that man a Foster's!"

The author clearly knows NOTHING about Australia! :)
In Australia you can't even find Fosters, and, if you can, no one drinks it as it's considered terrible beer.