All mp3 players (including Ipod) have been breaking the law.
From The New Zealand Herald:
"Proposed law changes will make it legal to copy music for personal use, but anyone recording a favourite television programme will be able to keep it for only a few days.
It is now illegal to copy music from a CD or tape to another device such as an iPod or an MP3 player.
But Parliament's commerce select committee has changed the Copyright (New Technologies) Bill to make it legal to "format shift" - or copy - music from a CD to other devices if it is for personal use.
The committee has not changed rules that render shelves of dusty videotapes illegal.
The current law allows home videotaping from TV, but only if programmes are kept for "no longer than is reasonably necessary for viewing ... at a more convenient time". That provision will remain.
And MPs on the committee have specified that copying DVDs or videotapes on to a device such as an iPod should not be permitted.
International treaty obligations did not allow the law change to extend to copying films, the committee said, and it did not consider such copying to be widespread."
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Stuff.co.nz's coverage of the bill...
Here's the link to the bill...
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