> >and it's not hard to find pirate movies (especially not if you hop > over to Johor Bahru in >Malaysia).We're ripped off in Australia with > hifi stuff. I don't want to sound as if I have any moral scruples of my own (I don't) but just a word of caution with these things, Australia is bound by certain international treaties regarding enforcement of software and copyright laws - if you're caught at Australian Customs, you'll REALLY feel ripped off. Rumor has it that VCDs bring $1,000 per disk fine in Oz. Travel to Britain is particularly touchy with data - they are able to look at the contents of your laptop hard drive too, so copying the data to /dev/hda and tossing the CD in the bin might not work if travelling through that part of the world. I don't think Australia has entered this era of privacy invasion - yet. On a recent trip to Hong Kong, I saw an 'assembly line' doing packaging of Win98 CDs in a shop selling these things. There was a stack of CDs on a wooden rod (the disks alone) that was at least 1m tall (each CD ~1mm thick = 1000 CDs). I'm all for Bill missing out on the 1000 customers (and probably 1,000,000 more where that came from) but it really started to look like things had gone a little too overboard. Caveat Emptor. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
