Border Guards to search iPod’s


	Border Guards to search iPod’s

billdeys

5-30-2008 2:27 PM

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ipod, laptop, copyright

billdeys says:

I don’t like this! Also can someone please tell me how the guards, some of whom can’t tell a sneeze from a wet fart let alone and iPod from a Zune, are going to tell what is infringing on copyright from stuff that I have currently, while it’s legal, ripped from a CD or downloaded in a legal non DRM’d ( read MP3 via eMusic) song!

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5-30-2008 3:42 PM

ericskiff

Oh man. It just keeps getting better.

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