CD ripping no longer illegal from 1st June 2014 (UK)

"An update to UK copyright law means that from 1 June 2014 it will no longer be illegal to make copies of CDs -- or ebooks or any other media -- that you have bought for personal use. According to current law, it is actually illegal to copy a CD for backup or to play the music on an MP3 player or mobile. It's also illegal to format shift an ebook you've bought from one device to another. Under new exceptions to copyright law, first initiated by the 2011 Hargreaves Review, people will be no longer be committing a crime by format shifting copies of CDs, ebooks or films they have bought.

 

It will remain, however, illegal to make copies at home for friends and family. So no passing on those ripped CDs, people! If you want to give the CD to a loved one, you should make sure you delete any personal copies you have made from it, explains the Intellectual Property Office (IPO)."

 

Wired Article

 

UK Government Press Release

 

Intellectual Property Office guidance (PDF)

 

FINALLY! I've always wondered how the 'rip' feature worked.

rip

People with iPods in the UK have been listening to silence for the past ten years.

does this open up more opportunities for enforcement?

out of interrest: does software you've bought in the uk, like nero or the windows media player have the ripping features enabled?

rip in peace

 

  On 3/29/2014 at 11:01 AM, CJM said:

out of interrest: does software you've bought in the uk, like nero or the windows media player have the ripping features enabled?

 

Yeah it's just as easy to do and the practice is just as prevalent as anywhere else. Outdated ineffectual law is being replaced with something slightly less so. It's not going to change anyone's behaviour

It was illegal?

Aww man they were so good at enforcing it too.

 

Now it's no fun. Hope that doesn't happen when weed is legalized.

  On 3/29/2014 at 12:46 PM, Leon Sumbitches said:

It was illegal?

Aye, in the same way recording stuff off the TV onto VHS and taping stuff from the radio onto cassette was (don't know if those law ever got updated)

DON'T COPY THAT FLOPPY

  On 3/29/2014 at 3:11 PM, Leon Sumbitches said:

DON'T COPY THAT FLOPPY

 

^^sweet memories...