http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,26058,24089084-5014090,00.html

We’ve given up nearly all of our other freedoms in the pursuit of homeland security, now the government want to invade our personal items to search us some more. Why? Because a few musicans, actors, record & movie labels, and the taxation department, don’t want us carrying around shared songs on our mobile devices.

It was OK to take tapes of recorded music off the radio around in a car & tape players previously. It was even OK to record a movie or TV show on TV that we missed & save it. However, it is wrong to share songs & movies in a digital format.

We’re not talking about “pirates” or “pirated” copies where someone has made a profit by selling pirated copies. This is music, movies & TV series being shared around the same as it’s always been… except now I can share with someone in the UK, and I can fit more on my devices.

If I was stopped by customs …. I’d request a search warrant on all artists, music label & govt departments houses to be searched for pirated goods. Not just music, or the odd Bali DVD, but every single thing they have taped off TV & radio over the years.

After that, I’m going to sue JVC, Sony, etc in one of the bigggest class action suits in history. They invented & provided me with the recording devices that could record off TV. (if ex smoker can do it, so can we!) They instigated my habit of recording movies & music, the iPod was just the next progression. (if cigarette companies advertising cigarettes can make me want to smoke, any crappy reason is feasible)

Then with all the money I win, I’ll pay for my lawyer, buy the record label, and sack the musicians for being such hypocrites!

I’d even throw in a side dish of invasion of privacy that isn’t for the welfare of homeland defence!

Let’s see them try I search my laptop, ipod, phone or whatever!