It is Now Illegal to Rip CDs You Already Own in UK

[Prokart2000]

this sums it up..

[atrash]

Now consider this, what happens when every blank media will be taxed because they think that people buy that to rip legal stuffs 'illegally', hence the consumers have to pay for all the 'potential lose of revenue' by the copyright holder.

[Realist Peter Pan]

torrents UK movie, and digitally copies 1000 times* come at me UK!  B)

[Liam-McShane]

Could have swarn it was around a year ago they made ripping CDs/DVDs legal for personal use

[asim1999]

It sucks that the British are becoming more American with laws like this 

[othertomperson]

Thanks UK gov for giving in to record labels' demands.

 

No, the government explicitly legalised this a year or so ago... I don't know wtf that judge was doing.

[Steve Wozniak]

Making something illegal on something becoming progressively obsolete? Well done lol your government seems almost as bad as the australian one. 

[Master Disaster]

This is eerily accurate

[othertomperson]

This doesn't even make any sense. It's based on an EU Directive -- a Directive isn't a law. It's more like a recommendation. A Directive is made with the intention of each country instantiating it in their own local laws -- they cannot override the local laws.

 

The High Court Judge does not have the power to override the laws Parliament sets down. What this thread is describing legally cannot happen.

 

Is there another source for this, because the more I read this the less credible it sounds.

[WelshDdraig]

This. Is. Bull. Crap!

Less than a year ago, this was passed to allow these actions: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29448058

and now the government is going back on their word? I'm thinking someone paid off someone or did them a questionable favor... (You have to use your brain for that one)

 

I'm not being funny, but in my house, I have younger brothers and sisters who take my stuff all the time and when I get it back, its all scratched and doesn't work, so I had to get a new copy every freaking time, no more, 

I have learned my lesson, I now digitize everything I own.

[Trik'Stari]

This shouldn't be able to last, because there is no legal argument to support it. Wendell put it perfectly.

 

If the CD is licensed (and not owned), and your CD is stolen, you still technically have the license (because a license is an intellectual construct, and can't be stolen), and thus have a right to listen to that song, in any format, in perpetuity. If it is owned, then it is yours to do with as you please, so long as you do not redistribute it to others.

 

Then again, it's the UK, it's already basically shocking that they supported this in the first place (making it illegal), so who knows.

[jaggysnake57]

there are times when im proud to be British

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

this isnt one of them

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Now consider this, what happens when every blank media will be taxed because they think that people buy that to rip legal stuffs 'illegally', hence the consumers have to pay for all the 'potential lose of revenue' by the copyright holder.

We already have had that system in place for years here. In fact our local copyright mafia is pushing it even further.

[atrash]

We already have had that system in place for years here. In fact our local copyright mafia is pushing it even further.

Wow,that's even worse than I can imagine it would be..

[Guest Generallee]

mfw third world country where nobody gives a flying fuck about piracy and isp doesnt even block torrents 

 

[jaggysnake57]

We already have had that system in place for years here. In fact our local copyright mafia is pushing it even further.

 

i think i just died a little inside...FFS get over it. the moneys gone now just move on

[Trik'Stari]

i think i just died a little inside...FFS get over it. the moneys gone now just move on

It's so funny. They keep squeezing more and more for higher and higher profit margins, when in reality they're cutting off the hand that feeds them.

[Lethal Seraph]

What a load of horse crap. 

 

I'd even listen it on YT or any online streaming service before even buying a copy, yet alone 'enforcing a law' to buy a second one to play on a different platform is ridiculous.

[bob345]

This is literally retarded. Why is it that nearly every politician ever has no clue about tech.

[Pomfinator]

It's hilarious that a couple of years ago, there would have been no High Court to strike this rule down.

 

This is literally retarded. Why is it that nearly every politician ever has no clue about tech.

These aren't politicians, these are judges who think they are politicians. The presence of a High Court in a country with no constitution is ludicrous. 

[Toddskins]

Crap like this, among many others, is why the Pilgrims left Britain for America and revolted against the king.  And took up arms to enforce their freedom from.

 

You guys should try it sometime.  You'll be amazed how much better you feel.

[Swndlr]

Am I the only one that sees this as a total joke? Like honestly what do they think theyre gonna achieve with this?

[ApolloEleven]

Just like Sir Jeremy Clarkson said "We live in a stupid country".

[Real_PhillBert]

You're crazy. I keep full system image backups on Blu Ray discs in case my external drive ever fails. I can fit tons of music on a Blu-Ray as well, up to 100GB now. That lets me keep my phone free for pictures and notes and the like. Optical media is never going to die out. It always has utility and reliability.

 

I see where you are coming from, but IMHO cloud based off site backups are going to take the place of optical backups.

 

OT: when you buy a CD are you really buying the media or are you buying a license for the media? If it is the latter one could easily see where this law makes sense. Not that anyone is going to follow it anyway.

[DXMember]

Can't you still do single copy per device plus one back up copy?