lol imagine if we could outlaw old technology! that would be pretty cool, but way too big brother-ish.
BoingBoing | proposed law | geek protest against the law | photo gallery of protest


haha this was the best picture

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"Jun writes: "Here in Japan, a New Law [the Electrical Appliance and Material Safety Law] will be in effect and almost of all the electric musical instruments and audio/visual devices which have been produced before 2000 will be banned to be sold commercially. "This means quite a lot of those devices in Japan will be disposed or exported to foreign countries. Already many second hand musical instrument shops have stopped purchasing these devices. ... Thanks, Jun. I've no idea if he's right about the new law (he says anything with an external AC adapter is excluded at the moment, but those adaptors will be considered later), but it could be time to get over to Japan and fill up a a shipping container with all those dangerous Jupiter-8s and TR-808s they'll be so keen to get rid of."

3/22/2006 2:55:41 PM

aha awesome picture!

-ZiP!-

3/22/2006 3:08:24 PM

STFU

3/22/2006 3:13:54 PM

Old, but noteworthy.

3/22/2006 3:20:22 PM

damn that's 2 old stories for me today

i fault BoingBoing

3/22/2006 3:24:09 PM

I want to know why that old dude is applying hemmoroid creme to a bird.

3/22/2006 9:27:47 PM

holy shit i have that exact same keyboard!

3/22/2006 9:38:34 PM

dude

if we can get all their old nintendos

i'd be happy

lemme ball on Bionic Commando again plz

3/23/2006 12:43:42 AM

we can all sleep easy tonight knowing that Japan drops ban on resale of used gear lol

3/27/2006 2:34:10 PM