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 Tim+C · 2011-08-02 22:18 · Score: 5, Interesting

Under the same law it's technically "illegal" to tape something off the TV
No it is not; in fact time-shifting is explicitly listed as an exception in the law. For example, see section 8 of this page. What is illegal is recording broadcasts in order to build up a library of recordings (i.e. you can't keep the recordings forever), but time-shifting is definitely not illegal.

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