Backing Up CDs is Once Again Illegal in the UK For Some Reason

In a useless newfangled ruling that will shift nothing , you’re able to no longer de jure rend cadmium and DVDs for personal use in the UK . lady and fellow , welcome back to 2002 .

Yep , you get wind that correctly : Yesterday , a high court of justice in the UK ruled that making digital backups of lawfully purchase , copyrighted music is illegal , void a ( very very long delinquent ) 2014 “ personal consumption exemption ” pattern that permitted folk to backup culture medium as long as they were n’t circularise it to others . ( In the USand many other countries , it ’s altogether fine to copy standard candle for your own personal use , and has been for a long time . )

The dramatic play started in November , when major euphony industriousness histrion including UK Music and the British Academy of Songwriters challenged the personal use exemption ruling , exact that it would cost the record industry millions , and involve that a “ compensation scheme ” be introduced . essentially , they ’re ask to get pay extra when you buy a forcible compact disk because of the dreadful adversity they support when you back said candle up to your medicine library .

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A UK high court judgedruled in the record diligence ’s favour last month , saying that the practice of backing up CDs was “ potentially harmful ” to music rights holders . Yesterday , it formally became illegal , again .

Of course , no one ’s going pay off any attention to this opinion , seeing as how we all bet on up our physical CDs long ago and reasonably much never grease one’s palms them anymore except as a tokenish gesture when we want to support a friends ’ stria . Once again , the record industry proves that it ’s run by dinosaurs who ’d like to bury themselves even further by focus their prison term and energy on unenforceable and largely irrelevant litigation .

[ Ars Technica|BBC ]

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