Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm open sourcing it

Re:Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm op... by bcx5k15 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:51AM (#36404899)

Depends where you live

In the UK its technically illegal to rip a CD to your own PC to back it up, for example, see the recent high court case(s) about it where the government won against Brennan (who make hifi gear which can do this) - no different to this app.

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Re:Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm op... by masfuerte on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:17AM (#36405230)

In 2014 the government passed a law making ripping explicitly legal. In 2015 the music industry sued and the High Court ruled that the law was contrary to some EU directive and thus invalid. But I don't know if that law was annulled by the court decision, or if it was merely dormant until we left the EU. The Brennan ripping devices are still on sale. Do you have a link to this case?

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Re:Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm op... by mnw21cam on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:01AM (#36405063)

I was under the impression that this had been changed in the last few years. Do you have a link for that case?

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Re:Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm op... by pja on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @12:50PM (#36406850)

I’m still getting adverts for Brennan thingies online, did they find a way around the court judgement?

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