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   zcat, May 29th, 2007 @ 11:43pm

   
   

   you should be so lucky

   Here in New Zealand you can't do anything at all with your CDs other than play them directly from the original media. No mp3 rips or transferring to mp3 players or making a CDR copy or tape to play in the car..
   
   Everybody does it anyway, but technically it's all illegal.

    

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   Overcast, May 30th, 2007 @ 6:24am

   
   

   Pretty much anything except for PAYING the recording companies anymore is infringement. Even after you buy the CD, you can only listen to it on the original disc, if it gets scratched - no biggy, just BUY another!
   
   In a 'perfect' world for the entertainment industry - we would just simply pay them, like another tax. They would provide nothing. That's the goal they aspire to I think.

    

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   Overcast, May 30th, 2007 @ 6:25am

   
   

   And to add.... until I CAN legally burn myself a copy without hassle - a CD isn't worth buying to me. Period.

    

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   dorpus, May 30th, 2007 @ 6:43am

   
   

   Uploading recalled products?

   Secom, a security company, ran a TV ad in Tokyo for security alarms for children. In the ad, the narrator says "protect your children from wild beasts who appear human", and showed electric repairmen and construction workers turning into hyenas and attacking children.
   
   After dozens of protests from construction workers and electric repairmen, the company has pulled the ad.
   
   Meanwhile, hyenas on the internet have uploaded copies of the banned ad online.
   
   http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0530/TKY200705300380.html?ref=rss

    

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   Just say no, May 30th, 2007 @ 8:46am

   
   

   One of these days we'll learn

   The problem, I believe, is more us the consumer rather than the entertainment industry. Pretty much, any country that doesn't endorse piracy is getting reamed by these crazy rules and laws put out by the industry.
   
   If we were smart, we'd realize this is entertainment and not a need. Then we'd all have a Great Worldwide Music Out, as opposed to the Great American Smoke Out. Worldwide, nobody would buy any music of any sort for a say a weekend. Not that big a sacrafice. If it were actually adhered to though, it would send a HUGE message to the enterainment suits. Too bad it will never happen.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, May 30th, 2007 @ 1:53pm

   
   

   Re: One of these days we'll learn

   Why bother with a 2 day boycott when you can just stop buying music forever and steal it all online for free? The xxAA's can make all the laws they want, but none of them are effective and usually just piss off customers to the point that they no longer want to pay for music and would rather steal it just so the music industry won't get the money from the sale. If you actually want to pay for more DRM and a bigger copyright lobby, then keep buying music, if you hate that stuff then steal it if for no other reason than to keep the money from the xxAA's and their international political agenda of greed.

    

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   clive, Jun 1st, 2007 @ 2:16pm

   
   

   not much better in the UK

   It's a similar story in the UK.
   
   Legally you can't take that nice bright clean CD you bought from a shop and make a copy for your iPod. You can't make a a backup either.
   
   Luckily the politicians have actually realised the a law which is broken by the majority (?) of the population on a regular basis needs review.
   
   Hopefully there will be something sensible (ha) in the near future.

    

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