UK fans can copy music for private use

[riddlermarc]

The threat of prosecution for copying music from a CD onto a PC or MP3 player no longer hangs over UK music fans, as long as it is for their own use.

Peter Jamieson, chairman of the British Phonographic Industry, said that consumers can only be penalised if they make duplicate songs for other people.

"I want to make it unequivocally clear to the consumer that if they copy their CDs for their own private use in order to move the music from format to format we will not pursue them," Jamieson told the Commons Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport.

.. more at: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2157746/uk-fans-copy-music

Glad that's cleared up

 

[Simian]

Yay... I'm finally legal!... (well they won't chase me for having all my CD's in MP3 format on my PC!)

 

[Slam62]

isnt that kind of them

 

[ben_j_davis]

Seem to be copying Australia.

 

[Andelusion]

Yay...because....erm...nobody does that already

Seriously though,

 

[SidewinderINC]

i'll go to bed safe at night now knowing police wont raid my house for my mp3 collection / copies of rare discs.

 

[Sic]

the people who've been done for this before are going to be pretty annoyed

 

[ballistic]

cool, thank you for your permission, morons

 

[Squark]

I thought that that was already the case, oh well

well technically couldnt everybody walking around with mp3 players have been nicked before?

 

[SidewinderINC]

I thought that that was already the case, oh well

well technically couldnt everybody walking around with mp3 players have been nicked before?

its only a civil offense, police dont get involved in that unless ordered to as far as i know...

 

[Locrian]

Yay... I'm finally legal!... (well they won't chase me for having all my CD's in MP3 format on my PC!)

Its a far cry to say its now legal. This is just a bloke from a trade association saying they wont come after you. Its not a new piece of legislation or anything.

 

[Davey_Pitch]

Already been discussed in GD.