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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't believe anyone's ever mentioned "stolen CDs" We're talking about the fact that it is currently illegal in the UK to transfer to an iPod or other MP3 player a CD that you have perfectly legitimately bought. That is clearly a ridiculous state of affairs and one that the law needs to address, which is what's being proposed by the government.
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Well, you did. You said "
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No. My argument for making format shifting legal is that it's clearly ridiculous to say to someone that, if they've legitimately bought a CD, they are committing a crime if they transfer the contents of that CD to an MP3 player. That's common sense.
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So if the word legitimately could be removed then your:
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It's ridiculous (IMHO) to try and "criminalise" personal ripping of CDs. It's completely unenforceable, and everyone does it,
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is an argument that is applicable to uploading and downloading copyrighted material. Because as written it was ridicolous because of "It's completely unenforceable, and everyone does it".