QUOTE(scottmuller28 @ Dec 8 2006, 12:54 AM)
This guy does not know what is going on. The federal Government are still implementing the new DMCA law which will outlaw modifications on Jan 1 07. This is still going ahead as I have double checked from a few different sources. There has not been any admendments to allow modding in Australia as it is allows been legal. He is quoting from old 05 articles (stevens vs Sony) and linking it to whats going on now. These are two unrelated cases and will not effect the new admendments. The draft is in review and will be passed through the Senate in the next couple of weeks. Sad but true!! Just check the Australia Government web site.
Errr actually you are wrong - it actually passed throught Parliament days ago:
http://www.lawfont.c...-house-of-reps/
QUOTE(scottmuller28 @ Dec 8 2006, 01:22 AM)
There are no press releases about this at all, as it has not get gone through the Senate yet.
What do you call this then?!
http://www.ag.gov.au...opyright_Reform
I know, because my birthday is the 6th :-)
QUOTE(Minotaur @ Dec 6 2006, 10:41 PM)
Unfortunately it's still difficult to advertise if you offer mods to the public. One of the main publications here, the Trading Post, disallow any modding ads that mention you can play homebrew or backups.
Err have you looked in the Trading Post lately ?
There are quite a few mod chipper adds in it.. its all in the wording
QUOTE(Darkness_au @ Dec 11 2006, 12:35 PM)
Err have you looked in the Trading Post lately ?
There are quite a few mod chipper adds in it.. its all in the wording
Yes, look at the colour 'Actualisation' advertisement (Melbourne) - that's me :-)
QUOTE(Mr_Metabolism @ Dec 11 2006, 12:08 PM)
Wow. So we can legally install modchips, but we can't have EPG's because of copyright breaches, and the way things are headed, it will be illegal to own ipods, or computers, or VCR's. Way to go Johnnie.
Actually, ipods, computers, and VCRs are all legal.
The only think you can't do is copy VHS to DVD (DVD to MPEG4, DVD to WMV etc is kind of legal due to the region-coding exception).
But hopefully that will be legalized in the near future :-)