Faraway, So Close

Alternatively titled: “I’ve Got to Go Cash my Cheques From the RIAA and MPAA!”

You have to listen to this — in it, the Minister lies, dodges, weaves and ducks around plain, simple questions like, “If the guy at my corner shop unlocks my phone, is he breaking the law?” and “If my grandfather breaks the DRM on his jazz CDs to put them on his iPod, does that break the law?” and the biggie, “All the ‘freedoms’ your law guarantees us can be overriden by DRM, right?” (Prentice’s answer to this last one, “The market will take care of it,” is absolutely priceless.)

Beautiful. Click here for the full article over at boingboing.net and here’s a direct link to the MP3 of the show.