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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2007.12.31 17:07:00 -
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Heh, won't stick in the UK or, as far as I know, the EU. UK law entitles you to every right to make computerised (or any) backups of any media that you own for private personal use. Seeing as the record industry lobbyists have nothing like the kind of influence here as they do in America, it's extremely unlikely that Parliament will vote to change it. I assume the EU law is the same, seeing as most UK copyright law is sync'd with the EU.
Sucks to live in the US though.
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 Originally by: CCP Prism X
There's no such thing as playing too much EvE!
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2007.12.31 17:19:00 -
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Originally by: Benny Hill
Originally by: Patch86
Heh, won't stick in the UK or, as far as I know, the EU. UK law entitles you to every right to make computerised (or any) backups of any media that you own for private personal use. Seeing as the record industry lobbyists have nothing like the kind of influence here as they do in America, it's extremely unlikely that Parliament will vote to change it. I assume the EU law is the same, seeing as most UK copyright law is sync'd with the EU.
Sucks to live in the US though.
Sure - create a CD image. That is what they will push for. Their end game is to make you buy every track that you use in portable players.
Yah, but you miss the point. UK law says you're free to backup any media you own in any way you please. Literally, any way you can think of backing it up is legal as long as it isn't used to illegally distribute it later.
To put it another way, UK law entitles owners of media to do what they like with it in the name of personal use, unless it is specified in the terms and conditions of the product (such as a shiny store-bought copy of Windows XP might have). Which is probably where the record companies would try to make their push- straight to the civil courts, and not the criminal ones. And we all know how much success companies have had trying to push TOC's and EULA's through courts which contradict national law...
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Originally by: CCP Prism X
There's no such thing as playing too much EvE!
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2007.12.31 18:46:00 -
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I stand corrected then. Been a few years since I failed my Law A Level 
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Originally by: CCP Prism X
There's no such thing as playing too much EvE!
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