When I read about this on the weekend, I was excited, as it seemed our government had got something right for a change....<br><br>Well, apparently not...<br><br>The article you linked to below (which I read in the dead-tree version of yesterday's SMH, so presumably it's on that site as well) says:
<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">The new laws will also make it legal for people
to tape television and radio programs for playback later, a
practice currently prohibited although millions of people regularly
do it.<br></div><p>Just as I got your email, I also got SMH's daily technology update email. The lead story in that email is <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/05/14/1147545211338.html">http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/05/14/1147545211338.html
</a>, which has more detail about what this means:<br></p><p style="margin-left: 40px;">Under the proposed changes announced over the weekend by the
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, it will only be permissible
to watch a recording from TV once, after which that recording will
have to be deleted.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;">It will also make illegal the time-honoured tradition of lending
recorded copies of favourite shows and sporting events to
family and friends who missed them on television.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;">The changes will overwrite the current laws which currently make
it illegal to record <em>anything</em> from the TV or off
a CD.</p>Also,<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">But the new laws will not mandate the making of back-up
copies of CDs. A format-shift copy needs to be in a different audio
format to the original.<br></div><br>and<br><br><p style="margin-left: 40px;">Under the changes, however, no such format-shifting will be
allowed with DVDs.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;">While you can dub a video onto a DVD, you will not be permitted
to, for instance, transfer a DVD film onto your computer or onto a
portable video device.</p>Can anyone point to a copy of the actual proposed changes and/or tell us who we need to continue lobbying to make sure that the sensible provisions are kept and the less sensible provisions are fixed?
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris McCormick</b> <<a href="mailto:chris@mccormick.cx">chris@mccormick.cx</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br><br>Contratulations to everyone who lobbied for this.<br><<a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/music-to-the-ears/2006/05/13/1146940775897.html">http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/music-to-the-ears/2006/05/13/1146940775897.html
</a>><br><br>Best,<br><br>Chris.<br><br>-------------------<br><a href="mailto:chris@mccormick.cx">chris@mccormick.cx</a><br><a href="http://mccormick.cx">http://mccormick.cx</a><br><br>_______________________________________________
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