I would like to wish good luck to all of the lovely people who will be responsible for making those phonecalls... I hope you have thick skins.

TRANSFERRING music from CDS onto iPods and other MP3 players will no longer be illegal after federal cabinet agreed to make sweeping changes to copyright laws.

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But the Government is giving police greater powers to tackle internet piracy, signalling that the days of downloading music from the internet danger-free may be limited.

Police will be able to issue on-the-spot fines and access and recover profits made by copyright pirates. Courts will be given powers to award larger damages payouts against internet pirates. Civil infringement proceedings will apply to copyright pirates who make electronic reproductions or copies of copyright material.

So it's now (or will be) legal to do what everyone has done for 30 years. Jump for joy.

Also part of the new changes will be to remove the 1% cap on fees paid by radio stations for the music they play.

The commercial stations seem to use the music as advertisements for their advertisements and talking wankers so I expect they'll be upset at the extra cost of their cash cow.

I wonder how the removal of the cap will effect community stations.