On Friday 12 November 2004 01:51 pm, JoeHill wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:47:13 +1100
Andrewd disseminated the following:
Of course down here in Australia it is illegal to make any copies no matter what the reason. So basically all those people running around with ipods cannot legally use them here as Apple do not allow you to use the Apple store here. We have no concept of 'fair use' like in the US
It's all kinda moot anyhow. There's no way for the recording industry to stop it. No law, no encoding scheme, will ever turn back the tide.
Well, except maybe in Oz, where people are well known for their deep respect for authority figures, eh Stephen? ;-)
He can't answer he tried to cool his machine with liquid nitrogen fell asleep during an upgrade now his lips are frozen to the keyboard ;-)
Come on Aron, that's just wishful thinking.. :-)
One thing I am really annoyed at the US for a the moment, is the trade treaty that means that we have to copy the US intellectual property laws, except that we have no "fair use" law.. so we legally can't use any MP3 players with music we already own..
One thing that never really made sense to me, is all the effort that the record companies are going to in order to stop copying.
The reason it makes no sense, is because no matter what they do, it has to output to headphones.. so there is nothing stopping people from plugging a line out into a line in (on a recorder) and just recording the output.
With the excellent clarity and low niose provided by todays higher end sound cards, you will lose less doing that, then you will by encoding to a lossy format like MP3 anyway..
Before the advent of digital music, thats how we copied music anyway, like dual deck tape recorders for example. one plays, the other records, the same process works for digital music as well.
I'm not much for digital music at the moment anyway.. and with the ridiculous DRM antics the RRIA are playing with, I'm unlikely to start. I also refuse to buy music CD's anymore either, my way of protest. (used to buy at least one a month.)
rgds
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