Legal change for personal CD ripping...

Now to just get the motorway speed limit set to 80mph! Oh wait, another not very good law whereby 90% of the country are already doing it! :)
 
I honestely didn't realise it wasn't allowed! I always was of the belief that if you owned the original you were entitled to make copies!
 
platypus said:
70 in the wet and 80 in the dry is fine in somewhere like France but our motorways are too busy.
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Last time I was on a motorway (M23) I was pumping along at 80 with everyone else and getting overtaken by quite a lot of people.

Germany seem to get away with different limits just fine and they quite like their cars too.
 
Plans to block websites that host copyright infringing material are to be dumped by the government.

Business secretary Vince Cable announced the change following a review of the policy by telecoms regulator Ofcom.

Website blocking was one of the key provision contained in the Digital Economy Act.

Internet Service Providers had objected to the idea that copyright owners could compel them to cut-off some sites.
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Also from the same BBC link. I'm very happy they are going through the Digital Economy Act but I wonder how it will affect the recent BT court case?
 
Does this also mean that breaking the protection on DVDs and Blurays will now become legal in the UK if it is to make a personal copy...

Of course more importantly, does this mean people will be able to discuss the best way to make personal copies on OCUK as it will not be illegal any more (once the appropriate laws are passed) ?.

RB

NB: Must refresh before replying to hot topic thread after stepping away for 30 minutes :D. Well I did mention Blurays which was different.... slightly.
 
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RimBlock said:
Does this also mean that breaking the protection on DVDs and Blurays will now become legal in the UK if it is to make a personal copy...

Of course more importantly, does this mean people will be able to discuss the best way to make personal copies on OCUK as it will not be illegal any more (once the appropriate laws are passed) ?.

RB

NB: Must refresh before replying to hot topic thread after stepping away for 30 minutes :D. Well I did mention Blurays which was different.... slightly.
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You have to assume that it is like the iPhone unlocking thing. They can try and stop you, but you are within your rights and the law to unlock it and do what you want.
 
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

As people have said, it really isn't going to make a whole lot of difference, people will carry on doing what they have done in the past. I doubt that there have been many prosecutions over people ripping CDs or DVDs. Film & record companies will continue to implement and improve anti-piracy DRM mechanisms and nobody will care.

Just a 'populist' stunt really.
 
I've not been hindered by copy protection on DVDs ever. In fact I had forgotten the technology existed.
 
Its the right decision I agree, but as others have mentioned it wont have any practical effect as people already do it, and there is no way to enforce such rules.

What will be interesting is how it affects games, does this mean that if you own game X on pc, you would then be able to legaly play the same game on your xbox without buying a second xbox version? it would be the same thing surely, as ripping some mp3s from your itunes to CDA for use in a car CD player... same product different format??
 
mattyfez said:
Its the right decision I agree, but as others have mentioned it wont have any practical effect as people already do it, and there is no way to enforce such rules.

What will be interesting is how it affects games, does this mean that if you own game X on pc, you would then be able to legaly play the same game on your xbox without buying a second xbox version? it would be the same thing surely, as ripping some mp3s from your itunes to CDA for use in a car CD player... same product different format??
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That is interesting but with different consoles extra work will have gone into porting it to another console - something I think is fair enough to charge for. I would imagine emulation would be legal - permitting you own the original copy?
 
I never even realised making a copy to put on your HDD was illegal. When I buy a CD, I rip to FLAC and then put the CD away on my shelf, probably never to be used again.

Oops.
 
Tute said:
I never even realised making a copy to put on your HDD was illegal. When I buy a CD, I rip to FLAC and then put the CD away on my shelf, probably never to be used again.

Oops.
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Here's another one not many people know, If you record something off the television onto vhs/dvd-r/hdd/sky+/etc your only allowed to watch it once before erasing it.




mattyfez said:
What will be interesting is how it affects games, does this mean that if you own game X on pc, you would then be able to legaly play the same game on your xbox without buying a second xbox version? it would be the same thing surely, as ripping some mp3s from your itunes to CDA for use in a car CD player... same product different format??
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Thats not really a very accurate analogy, a better one would be comparisons between the FDD version of Win95 and the CD version. Or the CD version of WoW and the DVD version, or something similar.
 
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