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Re:Sony Is Killing the Blu-ray, but Physical Media Isn't Dea... by zx8080 on Friday July 05, 2024 @02:59AM (#40880368)
How long before it's considered a piracy?
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Re:Sony Is Killing the Blu-ray, but Physical Media Isn't Dea... by theshrike79 on Friday July 05, 2024 @03:04AM (#40880396)
Depends on the local laws. Over here ripping for your own use is legal, sharing isn't.

Actually downloading is legal too, you just can't upload (making Bittorrent effectively illegal)

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Re:Sony Is Killing the Blu-ray, but Physical Media Isn't Dea... by pbhjpbhj on Friday July 05, 2024 @03:19AM (#40880461)
Ripping is a tort in the UK.
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Re:Sony Is Killing the Blu-ray, but Physical Media Isn't Dea... by gambiting on Friday July 05, 2024 @03:45AM (#40880587)
It's explicitly legal in the UK:

"In the United Kingdom, it was illegal to rip or copy the content of a CD, ebooks or DVD to even for your own personal use before October 1, 2014. It was illegal to break the DRM (Digital Rights Management) or TPM (Technical Protection Measures) used on DVD to protect the content from ripping. But the changes had come into force in October 2014 under the Copyright and Rights in Performances (Personal Copies for Private Use) Regulations 2014. UK government changed the law after inspecting DVD/CD copyright legislation and public consultation announced the legalization of DVD copy, backup or formats shifting."

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Re:Sony Is Killing the Blu-ray, but Physical Media Isn't Dea... by pbhjpbhj on Friday July 05, 2024 @02:02PM (#40884761)
The right was rescinded the following year after lobbying by media representative organisations.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-33566933 (I've not looked at this link, I just know it to be the case and prima facie this looked right)

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