Thread: Lord Mandelson Sucks - Wants to monitor you for "piracy."
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Old 10-30-2009, 04:20 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Moejoe View Post
Oh, and ripping your own collection was never criminal, there is no law on the books in the UK that makes fair-use backup a crime, not even a civil matter. That's absolute FUD and you know it.
No, you are incorrect. Format shifting - which includes ripping a CD which you've perfectly legally bought - is currently a copyright violation in the UK. The government has been saying for a while that this is an outdated anomaly which needs to be corrected, and now they are doing so. Of course, nobody is ever actually prosecuted for ripping their own CDs, but the fact remains that doing so is technically illegal.

Here's a BBC News item on the topic:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7176538.stm
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