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Originally Posted by Skip_intro
But, in the same way that no-one has yet been successfully prosecuted for recording music from the radio, taping LP's or ripping their CDs to MP3 - Home Taping Is Killing Music, right? - I cannot see how a case such as this involving books would also be successfully prosecuted.
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Taping a record isn't something you would do in public or advertise in front of the whole world, so it would have been pretty much impossible to prosecute. (Which is the only reason nobody ever was). People were prosecuted for selling and swapping bootleg recordings of live concerts, even though no commercial version of those recordings were available.
I doubt copying your own books onto a Kindle would get you in trouble either, because nobody (except Amazon) would ever find out. But if you download them instead you will leave behind evidence of that download. That is what might get you in bother.
Format shifting might be legalised in the UK at some point in the future, as long as none of the corporations who would be affected by it pay to have that clause removed, but it would need to be you who did the format shifting yourself.