Australia puts out for Hollywood with new copyright lawAre there any wingnuts out there can't see that this bit of Yankey Doodle Gob-jobby is gonna get Costello into heaps of pain when his yooth demographic runs outa music! As Beazley's world still runs on vinyl, mayhaps someone will tell him that this will deliver votes from a mob that normally don't interrupt their grazing for anything . . .
Australia is finally reforming its backwards copyright law, which made it illegal to record shows off the TV and radio, and to rip CDs for personal playback. However, in the process, they proposed a new law that is even more backwards -- one that prohibits watching your recorded shows more than once, one that doesn't allow you to make backups of your CDs, and that doesn't let you loan them to friends.
Australia's digital TV standards come from the DVB, a standards-setting body that is in the midst of creating one of the worst, most restrictive crippleware DRMs ever conceived of. With this new law in place, the "super-broadcast-flag" envisioned by DVB will be a slam dunk in Australia.
It's funny: the Hollywood cartel couldn't get the US to adopt the Broadcast Flag, so they went and sold this bill of dubious goods to Australians. You'd think Australia would be smarter than that: it's pretty sad to be the easy-lay nation that Hollywood turns to when it can't convince America to put out.
Beazely! - Sheep Have Ipods!
3 comments:
Tell you what, from this vantage point, spending a lot of time with (i suppose young) folk who download illegal music, most of them are happy to stick it on their portable devices and let it rot unlistened there. CDs are hardly relevant anymore when transferring music from one friend to another. See ysi, rapidshare, sendspace etc.
Heh, ain't bitorrent cool!
The BoingBoing piece reminded me of the years I spent loading vinyl onto cassettes, the cassettes onto CDs, into mp3 and finally onto ipod. Apart from that I never actually play them, but you never know . . .
whhoo, long time ago toke ...
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