[LINK] New Australian copyright laws

[Reagan Blundell]

Howard Lowndes wrote:
> 
> ...and when you buy a TV in the UK the retailer is required to advise
> the licencing authority of your details - well, 30 years ago when I was
> living in the UK.  They also use scanner vans to look for heterodyne
> signals from TVs.  These vans are VERY obviously marked to shame
> infringers.  It's been that way for probably 50 years now.  In fact you
> used to have to have a licence to use an ordinary radio, but that went
> out in about the '50s.
> 
Billag, he Swiss equivalent of the UK's TV Licensing has a separate
charge for TV and for Radio.  The local authorities let them know about
me when I registered my new residence status - so haven't seen any
cat^H^H^H TV detector vans here  yet :-)