That insane Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) we told you about last month isn't going away. Now the Australian government has taken a liking to the idea of this secretly-negotiated fascism, seriously considering searching iPods and MP3 players at security checkpoints. They’ll be looking for illegally downloaded songs, and evildoers who are caught could face jail time.

At first glance, this is scary. But what this really does is reveals the cluelessness of elected officials worldwide (including ours in the U.S., who also supported this international rights-busting agreement). Just let those security drones try to start searching every music player, and they’ll soon discover there’s no way to determine which songs are legit and which aren’t. That might not stop them from spending hours per person trying.

Of course, that could never happen here in the good ol' U.S.of A. The TSA would certainly follow the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and get warrants from a judge for every one of these unreasonable searches they decide to do. Right? Wouldn’t they?

PC World, via Boing Boing Gadgets