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Originally Posted by tompe
Well not according to the argument latepaul did by quoting "The personal copying exception permits you to make copies of media (CDs, ebooks etc) you have bought, for private purposes such as format shifting or backup"
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Copying physical media such as CDs and DVDs, sure, but making backups of digital data such as ebooks has always been legal. As I said in my previous post, though, the reason that the law was changed is that everyone - the music industry included - considered it ludicrous to have a situation where ripping a CD you'd legally bought to your MP3 player was technically illegal.