Finally! Copying Music To Your MP3 Player No Longer Breaks UK Law
- added January 09, 2008
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- abbym0308
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Until now, consumers who put a CD on their computer and then uploaded the songs to their ipod were technically breaking the outdated Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Welcome, copyright law, to the digital age.
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Cool! Now I can find a way to download songs from Pandora and copy them over to my iPod!
Wait... Pandora's pretty much closing? Gah!
It's good this has been made official, I guess, but it's not going to make a blind bit of difference to people's practice. Has anyone really ever stopped to worry about the legal implications when they copy music from their paid-for CD over to their portable music player?
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If Sony has their way, the US is moving in the opposite direction. In the first music piracy case in the US, the head of litigation for Sony said that ripping CDs you purchased into your iTunes constitutes stealing. Apparently, if you want the songs you own on CD on your computer and iPod as well, you're supposed to re-buy them. And if you keep a back up drive of all your songs, in case your ipod or your cds get stolen or your computer crashes...that's probably stealing (at least by the Sony definition) again.
