[LINK] We?re all copyright criminals now

[Adam Todd]

At 12:01 PM 22/11/2006, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>At 11:28 AM 22/11/2006, Stewart Fist wrote:
>>No one ever did.
>
>Stewart, reminds me of the recent attempt at Southbank in Melbourne where 
>the centre owners put up signs for 'no photography', in English only of 
>course. The funny part was the interviews that were done by local TV 
>journalists asking the Japanese tourists if they knew they were breaking 
>the law.

It wasn't a law!

>Of course they couldn't speak English either, so of course they didn't 
>understand the question. There were also confronting questions of centre 
>management about who thought up that stupid idea. Lots of buck passing. I 
>think people just ignore the signs, as they should.

But doesn't that lead to other social responsibility issues.

"No Trespassing" and a month later you're in the Courts defending.

People seem to believe that Police can break into houses without 
consent.  This isn't true.  Police have NO power to be on private property 
unless the occupier authorizes them.