Apologies if this is old, but there's an article in today's paper, outlining the proposed changes to the Copyright Laws. The major TV stations are putting in their submissions. The summary of changes are outlined in this scan:


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errr... wtf? How would they even police this?

That's the dumbest s*** I have read all year. Thankyou for the laugh. You dummies. BAHA!

And they wonder why there is no respect for the Law, especially when the law is as dumb as dogs***.


thanks for the laugh....

ahahah

You gotta wonder why, WHY WHY!? the f*** they would both with something like that ?

Maybe they are letting people become complacent about copyright laws, whilst slowly intensifying restrictions and punishments.

Then they will come in the night, and imprison everyone to install a new world order.

Maybe they'll install some 1337 virii in all the recorders, that, instead of expiring old recordings, turns them into gay porn

Hahahahaha thats gold!

You gotta wonder why, WHY WHY!? the f*** they would both with something like that ?

Because a lot of the people who create these laws are retards... I can't really think of any other reason :P

I honestly don't know how some of these spastic laws even get passed... sure the original creator might be a spazwang but it has to go through a whole bunch of people to be passed as a law! How its not picked up off the pile and thrown into the rediculous bin at the first step I do not know.

To think these people are basically in charge of the country... it makes my head hurt :/

there are plenty of dopes running the country, but what are you going to do about it?

man this s***s me

who f***ing paid a guy to come up with this crap...

who f***ing paid a guy to come up with this crap...

we all did with our f***ing tax money.

thank you f***ing stupid Libral Governement, thank you for wasting my f***ing money on retarded s***...and i can blame them cause they are the magority and they can only pass a law this stupid.

maybe recorded stuff will magically self-destruct after viewing, mission impossible style :P

maybe recorded stuff will magically self-destruct after viewing, mission impossible style :P

or new VCR's will just turn on the erase head while its playing so the tape goes past the play head, then past the erase head. Once you've watched it BAM! it's erased. Previously the erase head was only turned on during recording and it's placed before the play heads (I think?)

yeah I reckon the automagically deleting media theory.

but what if you missed a bit and wanted to rewind whoop? :|

doh, i'm a bit slow...
this is all for foxtel isn't it?

i love those guys, always looking for ways to improve society

speaking of which, aren't we due for a social/political revolution sometime soon?

errr... wtf? How would they even police this?

They don't need to be policed, they just need to be used to deny new technology entry to our markets.

You are still breaking the law if you give a recording of last nights' LateLine to a workmate like the communication minister has admitted she has demanded of her staff, but i'm sure the laws won't affect politicians, just normal people trying to use the latest technology. They are pro-business laws that in the end are anti-consumer and give special treatment to a medium that shouldn't be treated any differently than the printed word.

You can't give a copy of last nights "National 9 News" to a friend who missed it, but if they didn't pick up a news paper yesderday it's not a crime to hand over yours!

It's prolly written out so simple for the deads***s who watch Neighbours and Home And Away.

8-)

it was in a newspaper for f***s sake - Of course it is transcribed probably totally incorrectly. The judicial system will interpret the changes and how they set precident is up to them, not the f***ing 'courier mail' or any other idiot journo's extrapolation.

Then they will come in the night, and imprison everyone to install a new world order.

you are very close to the truth - keep digging.

whoever came up with those copyright restrictions is retarded and should be promptly removed from the gene pool.

It's not how it's written, it's what's actually described.

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Sparkletags have EVERYTHING!

They're probably just trying to cover their own asses. Laws that are undetectable when broken or unenforcable tend to die out. One of my law student friends told me it used to be illegal to drive without shoes on in QLD, but they scrapped it since it's near impossibe to police such a thing.

its a slightly better law than it was but its still s***

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it's not gay, it's a SPARKLETAG! :D

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