Ripping CDs Set To Be Legalized In UK

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 2, 2011 @09:02PM from the about-bloody-time dept.

nk497 writes "The UK is finally set to legalize format shifting, making it legal for the first time to rip songs or films from CDs and DVDs. Ripping is technically illegal under copyright protection laws, despite most industry lobbyists agreeing it was time for a change. The rules look set to be modernized as the government endorses a recent intellectual property report, which also called for the government to ditch plans to require ISPs to block illegal file-sharing sites without a court order."

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Re:Seriously? by Joce640k · 2011-08-02 23:55 · Score: 4, Funny

... find an enormous range of CDs which still sell well.
Blasphemer! Everybody knows you can only ever sell one copy of a CD these days and then piracy takes care of the rest!!

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