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Australians Allowed to Format Shift Media

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yay-for-rights dept.

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."

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  1. Vegemite by Snuggly_Soft · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think that it goes without saying that Vegemite constitutes a form of format shifting, and it's been around for years. And it's inherent nastiness could be construed as a form of DRM. Maybe since Australia was founded as a prison colony, their citizens are guilty until proven innocent. And that's why VCR's are illegal. Please mod Troll. I'm so sorry.

    1. Re:Vegemite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      vegemite is the best

      fuck you peanut butter and jam eating cockbites

  2. "Breaking the law every day". by void24601 · · Score: 0, Troll

    We're a country of Convicts, what do you expect?