Transferring music ruled legal – Technology – theage.com.au
> Once the new laws are passed, “format shifting” of music, newspapers and books from personal collections onto MP3 players will become legal. 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.
Laws like this give me hope that maybe the copyright mess can be sorted out. Downloading music and movies from the internet is still illegal to do, but at least it’s legal to tape a show for later viewing now.
