BL> And I'm not happy with paying shooters compensation, either.
BL> I had a modem when Austel came along and no one paid me for
BL> it when it was made illegal. All they did was slap a $20,000
BL> fine and tell me to get fucked if I got caught.

PE> Before Austel, there was Telecom.

BL> Gee... I can remember when it was called the GPO, but the fact
BL> remains that when I bought my modem there were no approvals.

Poor old Bob. There were ALWAYS approvals, and in fact before you
could buy approved modems you had to lease one from Telecom.

BL> Good ole Telecom always lags a couple of years -
BL> they were still arguing over "approved" telephones.

Those have always needed to be approved too.

BL> In any case, Brenton came up with an
BL> even better example: radar detectors.

Pity those were clearly a deliberate attempt to
avoid getting caught breaking the existing law.

BL> They cost as much as an SLR and were banned
BL> in exactly the same way: no compensation.

Soorree, nothing remotely like a gun where there
was no legal restriction whatever, being banned.
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