iPods in Australia
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- SF
apparently they are useless by law.
- vena0
i always thought of australia's copyright laws, especially recently, as totally fucking overboard. i mean, the DMCA here is bad, but i weep for aussies.
- sexypixel0
Copyright laws in aus are so strict because if its close proximity to Asia.
- SF0
This is the first i've heard about it being illegal for us to convert our cd's to digitial form. I've always thought that if you own the CD you can listen to it in any form you want.
- SF0
i thought wrong obviously
- XC010
there are all forms of blank media around to be purchased. yet it is illegal to copy music form cd to cd, cd to tape etc...
what do they think people are doing with them?
- ChumleyUK0
Aussies can't convert? Just kick it into touch ;) lol
- Peter0
"Copyright laws in aus are so strict because if its close proximity to Asia. "
Could you explain this a bit?
* not an australian
- ChumleyUK0
Asia is famous for it pirating and Australia is very close. They have to be very careful of foreign 'conversions' which they try to 'drop kick' out of there... ;) lol
- sexypixel0
yes, asia is a hub of copyright material and aus cities get flooded with pirate materical, from toys to cds.. especially around xmas time. Apparently people have a problem paying less for products just cause they dont have pretty packaging :)
- Peter0
There might be a concentration of pirated software in some asian countries, but I can't believe it would get anywhere close to Austrialia. Would it now?
- Peter0
I know you can get a lot of pirated stuff here. Had no idea they exported it though.
Wouldn't it just be cheaper just to produce the cd's over there?
- Peter0
Then, how does your view of piracy in Asia (fairly generall view I think: China and Taiwan is where the piracy is at as far as I know) relate to the topic of this thread about ipod?
This law, as I understand it (just skimmed through), prohibits people to digitilize music from a cd. Fake or non-fake cd. That is, no real relation to pirated cd's or toys, but turning your music to mp3's.
Being pirated or not, MP3's doesn't necessarly soledly belong in Asia. It's global. Blaming strict laws regarding digital format of music on piracy in asia seems odd to me. But I might be wrong.
- sexypixel0
i presume if they were to set up factories here there would be the fear of police raids and expensive machinery being confiscated
- ChumleyUK0
I think you are missing the line out here?!
- sexypixel0
vena spoke about australia having crappy copyright laws, i tried to explain why. I was trying to dump on asia in general. Maybe I should have stated the exact countries.. but i found piracy to be rife in thailand, Indonesia and malaysia also
- sexypixel0
sorry, that should read "wasn't" trying to dump on asia in general
- Peter0
I don't think there's any factories for that in China. I always figured it's just some guy sitting with a couple of burners in his boyroom at his parents house.
But you're right of course, there's no real strictness about it there. They should ask Vena to come clean up the place. Make them feel guilty and all about fonts that are not theirs. ;)
- sexypixel0
I friend of my brothers is a copyright lawyer. his appartment is often full of hello kitty crap, nike shoes and diesel clothes that came from china. So i guess they would have factories for these operations
- sexypixel0
and sometimes the stuff that comes from china is better quility than the original... probably cause the original is often made their and tiawan anyway
- Peter0
"I friend of my brothers is a copyright lawyer. his appartment is often full of hello kitty crap, "
Hehe, priceless!
Yeah, you're right. They're probably factories for everything there. Still, these cd's, anyone can do it without setting up a shop. Thought it would be the reason why so many people do it. But anyways, the wasn't the point.
* runs off, buys a few burners, moves back to my parents