The UK has adopted the draconian EU laws on copyright. Making personal backup copies of CDs and DVDs is now illegal, even if you legitimately own the media in the first place. Looks like I'm going to jail...
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It seems my collection of CDs is not what it seems. I like CDs, I like to own a piece of media from which I can listen to music in good quality. Further more, I can make MP3s of this music so I can listen to it in a more convenient form on my MP3 player. To the best of my knowledge, no one has yet made a CD player that's about the size of a box of cigarettes and doesn't skip if you use it while jogging.
Well, here you go, BPI, I'm a criminal (apparently). It must be worth your while to spend the money I've been giving you in CD purchases on busting me for, well, purchasing CDs.
The law gone mad - like many US laws, this one is designed solely to speed up the growth of the legal industry. There's no benefit to this law, it doesn't protect people from criminals, and it penalises the innocent. Well done, EU, well done UK.
I wonder if there is scope to get refunds on all my CDs now? I mean, I bought them in the belief that I could make MP3s of them for my own use. I don't put them on P2P networks, so until today, everything I did was legal. Today, it's illegal, so I wonder if I can get refunds because the goods are "not fit for the purpose for which they were sold". Just a thought...
I must find out how the RIAA Radar works - we must be able to make a "BPI Radar"...