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Hi Andy,
One may well argue that making your own copy of a book or a CD that you own, for strictly personal use, is a legitimate definition of "fair use". Surely, though, you wouldn't accept that uploading such a copy to the internet, where it could be downloaded by anybody, regardless of whether or not they owned it, is either "morally" or legally acceptable, would you?
It is the uploaders who are the true criminals, not the downloaders. Let people rip their own CDs or scan their own books - that would be a perfectly reasonable extension of the UK's "Fair Use" laws, IMHO - but I believe that uploaders should be legally persued and prosecuted with the full severity of the law.
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