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Australians Allowed to Format Shift Media
An anonymous reader writes "Australian Federal law will now allow format shifting of media (ie:Ripping CDs to MP3s). Something long allowed under US copyright legislation, but only now coming to the Land Down Under." From the article: "Once the new laws are passed, 'format shifting' of music, newspapers and books from personal collections onto MP3 players will become legal. The new laws will also make it legal for people to tape television and radio programs for playback later, a practice currently prohibited although millions of people regularly do it. Under the current regime, millions of households a day are breaking the law when they tape a show and watch it at another time."
This drives me nuts. Too many posters here make this mistake. If you're not going to bother using a spellchecker, then next time before you type that word ask yourself, "Am I going to be rediculed?" That doesn't make sense, does it? That's because you are the subject of ridicule--not "redicule"--and "ridicule" is the root of the word "ridiculous". Please spell it right. Thanks.
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
Vegemite is Australia's way of determining what people are made of.
If you can eat a piece of white bread with margarine and a good serve of vegemite, then you're made of the tough stuff. Sadly, few people outside Australia seem to be made of the sort of stuff we are.
Mod that parent funny! I mean, compared to my post it's bloody hilarious.