Australians Allowed to Format Shift Media 155
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."
It's about time. (Score:2, Funny)
Um... (Score:3, Funny)
Does that mean... (Score:3, Funny)
Australia! (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine that, an entire nation composed of criminals [wikipedia.org]!
I guess it's true; history repeats itself.
MOD PARENT DOWN! (Score:1, Funny)
Australia is a nation of criminals! America is a nation of Puritans! LOLOLOLOL!!!!
Re:Vegemite (Score:1, Funny)
Re:America is still worse, right? (Score:5, Funny)
In other, geekier words, he's asking about the first derivative value rather than the function value: f'(t) rather than f(t).
Personally, I'm more concerned with f''(t). I have a friend that wants to know f'''(t). If we put them all together we'd have a 3rd-order Taylor series expansion, with which we might approximate America's goodness with regards to copyright law at f(t+10) with reasonable accuracy. Wicked.
I'm sure you'd be satisfied with a first-order approximation, though. That'll do in the short run.
Yes, I'm a grad student. It's just sick what it's done to my mind, isn't it?
Re:Australia! (Score:3, Funny)
I'll tell Johnno, the Prime Minister, that you're out there on this Intarweb thing next time I see him down the pub. He'll tear you a new arsehole pretty quick smart with that boot of his.
Re:Isn't is supposed to be legal? (Score:3, Funny)
I had a giggle reading that, and then I turned on the radio.
I think they were right.
Re:MOD PARENT DOWN! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Um... (Score:3, Funny)
Couldn't resist. (Score:4, Funny)
I think in that case, you're pretty much f'ed.