There Is No CD Revival

Re:There Is No CD Revival by Jaruzel on Friday April 29, 2022 @06:43AM (#31203545)

Here in the UK, it's currently illegal - the High Court ruled in favour of the Musicians Union back 2015, and it's yet to be overturned (again).

The distinction is, that while it's NOT illegal to copy a CD to another format, it IS illegal to make a copy of something that has someone else's copyright on it, be it music, spoken word, written documents, videos or photos etc.

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Re:There Is No CD Revival by judysjacket on Friday April 29, 2022 @06:51AM (#31203595)

>it IS illegal to make a copy of something that has someone else's copyright on it

That can't be true.

It would mean doing backups are effectively illegal (can only backup your own files, not programs or the OS or any other files not created by oneself)

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Re:There Is No CD Revival by Jaruzel on Friday April 29, 2022 @07:19AM (#31203742)

Unfortunately it is true.

Explained in the last paragraph of this section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#United_Kingdom

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