Australia's copyright "reform"
For the first time you will be able to record most television or radio program [sic] at home to enjoy at a later time. This will allow you to watch or listen to a program as it was made available to the public at the time of the original broadcast... The recording must be deleted after one use. It will not be possible to use the recording over and over again." Loading a digital music player becomes legal, but making a backup copy of a CD is not. (Seen on BoingBoing).
Posted May 15, 2006 22:37 UTC (Mon)
by bignose (subscriber, #40)
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I thought industries *made* things, instead of taking them and artificially restricting them.
Posted May 16, 2006 9:15 UTC (Tue)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Posted May 16, 2006 0:17 UTC (Tue)
by Arker (guest, #14205)
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Posted May 16, 2006 0:27 UTC (Tue)
by kbengston (guest, #6153)
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Maybe this particular change shows some kind of realisation that the current rules just bring the law into contempt, since nobody obeys them. Or maybe the governement wants to publicise the good news about new freedoms, before the bad news about the new restrictions needed to harmonise with the US DCMA.
Now, if only we can get some TV content worth recording ...
Posted May 16, 2006 1:06 UTC (Tue)
by Switched (guest, #2475)
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Posted May 17, 2006 15:36 UTC (Wed)
by Z.Clark (guest, #37629)
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It's a concession to some of the needs of the public, but it's still heavily influenced by the bizarro-world where sharing is "piracy", intellectual works are fungible "content", and restrictive copyrights are somehow an "industry".Still treating intellectual works as boxes of stuff
Welcome to the world of fiat goods :(Still treating intellectual works as boxes of stuff
What actually seems to be going on is that they're repealing a few old laws that they never dared to enforce anyway, to distract people from the implementation of a DMCA copy and laws that make filesharing not only illegal, but go so far as to make it a guilty until proven innocent crime. Australia's copyright "reform"
People here already record their TV for later viewing. Many would be surprised to hear that it is not legal. reform, Scotty, but not as we know it
Watch the technology get implemented in record time - single playback of a Australia's copyright "reform"
recorded broadcast. Forget about saving your favourite team's Grand Final
glory, or your loved one's 15 minutes of fame on TV, or.. any number of
legitimate reasons to want to watch a recorded item more than once. What
is the guarantee that these broadcast items will ever be available to
purchase commercially so I can be "legal"? In the case of Grand Finals,
the production companies just want to give a highlights package, not the
entire game.
Even more ominous are the "International Obligations" the Government so
recklessly signed up for in the Free Trade Agreement, just so that we can
sell wheat in the same markets as the USA.. @_@
The DMCA - coming to a Billabong near you... These new laws are simply the
first step in complying with those "International Obligations".
And don't say to write my local member. My local member (a member of the
same party as the Prime Minister) has basically been snubbed by the PM
after a request for aid after two cyclones have devasted a lot of
community infrastructure. I doubt he'd get much of a hearing on FTA
related issues, and he's retiring after this term, anyway. Seriously,
Australia is essentially now ruled by a dictatorship. There is no
opposition (they are a disorganised bunch of rabble), and the Government
has siezed their chance to further their business buddy's agendas without
fear of retribution. Things -will- get worse for ordinary Australians as
we rush headlong down the path to becoming the 51st state of the United
States of America. Vote for your Independent candidate on election day.
First let me convey my appreciation to fellow contributors for your enlightening comments.
Australia's copyright "reform"
Now let's boldly look at what Ruddock says, "For the first time you will be able to record most television ....." - barf-slop-stop! that's sufficient drool right there!! Whew, it'd be a challenge to spin a more ludicrous, patently false statement. He starts right in with some damn dangerous crap - especially for those numb to it (since the newspeak fraud then continues unabated). I mean, the dear gentleman speaks as if he's just become aware of technology intended for home use over 40 years ago (not to mention the pure gall it takes to make a press release of this insanity). ZERO shame! - guess it goes hand-n-hand with zero tolerance.
Yea, I know, one shouldn't take him literally. NO? Why not demand clean straight speech? Why not slice such shit to ribbons as it slithers from his mouth, rather than routinely bend our minds to accommodate twisted inane nonsense? Permitting them to cover over core concepts with crud only encourages more of the same with no limits. Wouldn't it be healthier to call a spade a spade? - to simply say, "Good news, we've decided to partially abate our threats of imprisonment and fines for using your own recorders in your own homes with your own televisions, *BUT* ...."
Incidentally, I really enjoyed subscriber nix's phraseology, "... fiat goods" - the predestined backwash of fiat currency.