Australia Bends Over for Hollywood with New Copyright Law

Australia is finally reforming its backwards copyright law, which made it illegal to record shows off the TV and radio, and to rip CDs for personal playback. However, in the process, they proposed a new law that is even more backwards — one that prohibits watching your recorded shows more than once, one that doesn’t allow you to make backups of your CDs, and that doesn’t let you loan them to friends — via Boing Boing