Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😘😘😘 Tuesday, September 3, 2024

• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You have a valid point. Also, we’re one of those countries that treats piracy (or a lot of the time, even just digitising your existing physical media) as the ultimate crime against society. Since we also let border officer take backups of phones and computers, indefinitely storing them on their hard drives, and they’re allowed to demand passwords, and seize devices with no justification, I feel pretty sure your music would get seized at the border.

  But also, they act like they’re allowed to do whatever they want with no requirement to justify their actions, they’d probably seize CDs too just for shots and giggles

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Since we also let border officer take backups of phones and computers, indefinitely storing them on their hard drives,

    so don’t carry your personal stuff

    buy a burner when you reach your destination

    and if it’s a work computer who gives a shit

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    nah been through the border many times and they really only care about food

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    • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They search about 5,000 phones a year. I value my privacy, and don’t appreciate people poking through my shit on a “you seem suspicious” basis. I understand that that’s basically customs entire job, but it feels different when it comes to computers and phones, particularly as they don’t even need grounds of suspicion - they can just decide they don’t like you and take your phone

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      • neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s one of the many human rights we don’t care about in Australia. It’s targeted harassment and abuse of power.

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All the music platforms are terrible. They try to push playlists and make you listen to music the way they want you to.

  I don’t want to go any further forward than queuing up albums in VLC player from an external harddrive

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• bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  could they be still living in your computer somewhere? i have my itunes library intact but no longer in the music app

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Imma have a look

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    • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      try searching the name of a song in your computer. might still be there. good luck!!!

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