[Linux-aus] A speech by AG Ruddock "No Fair Use For You!"

[Nathan Bailey]

How do you know about "no rewind"? (or is this a reference to not  
being able to watch a taped show twice?)
I'd like to know what the *specific* things we expect this would mean  
are so I can write about it.

eg. presumably by excluding Fair Use, the Attorney General is  
implicitly saying that it would likely be illegal to make (or have?)  
a viewer that allowed you to fast forward "compulsory" bits (eg. the  
trailers and warnings at the start).

What other "normal" / "useful" things would one not be able to do?

ta,
N

On 04/09/2006, at 5:40 PM, James Purser wrote:

> Also found by Donna,
>
> http://tinyurl.com/kcpao
>
> Not only is there not going to be any fair use clause, they are still
> insisting on the "no rewind" clause and limiting what we can do  
> with the
> media we purchase.
>
> Gah.
>
> -- 
> James Purser
> Ordinary Committee Member
> Linux Australia