<quote who="QuantumG"> > I think the whole message of the first article (which is very different to > the second article) is that all Australians are criminals when it comes to > copyright law
The article says "decriminalise" once, which I'd be happy to put down to hyperbole, given the rest. It correctly points out that recording from the TV and ripping a CD are not legal, which is *true*. Our copyright law doesn't allow for (private) "fair use" or "time shifting" (as US law does). > so don't complain when criminal copyright laws are introduced. I can't see anything in the article that suggests this. In fact most of the article is about introducing "fair use" to offset our existing copyright law problems exacerbated by the FTA's DMCA laws. > Nevermind the fact that copying-stuff-off-tv has never been a criminal > act. Not criminal, but certainly not legal. - Jeff -- GUADEC 2005: May 29th-31st http://2005.guadec.org/ "Learning and doing is the true spirit of free software -- learning without doing gets you academic sterility, and doing without learning is all too often the way things are done in proprietary software." - Raph Levien -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
