Private Copies Of Music Are Illegal Again In The UK

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While this wasn't unexpected, it still sucks for our brothers and sisters across the pond. :(

Following the CJEU's decision in the Reprobel case (reported here and here), it is perhaps not surprising that the UK Intellectual Property Office has announced that it is to abandon the UK's private-copying exception which was introduced in October 2014, and which was effectively declared illegal by the High Court in July of this year, and so had to be withdrawn.
 
And just think the consumer could fight back real easily, and very effectively by essentially boycotting buying any music. However most people don't care about this sort of thing.
 
With stupid shit like this there's no reason to buy music.

sfsuphysics said:
And just think the consumer could fight back real easily, and very effectively by essentially boycotting buying any music. However most people don't care about this sort of thing.
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I disagree, consumers fight back every time they fire up Deluge or whatever their client of choice is.

The real progress on this kind of idiocy is going to have to come from the people providing the content, as in the artists, and most of them suck at business. So they leave it up to crooks in suits to handle it.
 
My source of music now is to capture the audio streams off youtube videos. No different that recording a song from the radio onto an audio cassette or recording a TV show onto a video cassette. I'm no audiophile, so imperfections are not a big deal to me.

Does the UK government or the some other entity have cameras hidden in people's homes or software on all computers monitoring for that one rip from a CD and then they send in their equivalent of the SWAT team? The big picture is that it will change nothing. Brits will still rip their CD's whenever they damn well please just like many of us do with our legitimately purchased DVDs and Blu-rays.
 
And once the TPP is in place this will apply everywhere else too.

Copyright is getting more and more ridiculous. It used to be to protect artists, now it's just to protect corporations. Actually protect is not even the right word, piracy does not even hurt them, they make billions regardless. It's more so they can make even more money through lawsuits, and governments get a hardon at any way they can prosecute people. That's why the sentences are so ridiculous.
 
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that most people don't really care either way. It's just music and there's hardly anything less important than what you can or can't do with music. Nor is any of it worth struggling or scrambling around for since it's so inexpensive to purchase.
 
Pretty soon they'll put DRM on vinyl that ties it to one record player.
 
I'm waiting for them to invent audio implants that will be required to even listen to music, as it's tied to the person's implant so nobody else can hear it without purchasing it first. Complete with technology that prevents a person from hearing external music anymore through advanced noise canceling.

Then will come the optical implants and special filters for TVs and monitors that filter out any copyrighted visuals you haven't proven to bought legally.
 
The election process is useless now because we are only choosing the lesser of two evils. During the campaigning, they say what the sheeple want to hear. Once in office they do little of what the claimed they'd do. Instead they do what the deepest pockets want them to do. Then when election come around again, the sheeple start the whole process over again. We are on the verge of becoming a totalitarian democracy. and if we maintain this downward spiral, we will become a pure totalitarian country.
 
UK is really not a free country. Surveillance cameras on every corner, ban on guns, ban on porn, ban on using your own bought music the way you want...
 
NeghVar said:
My source of music now is to capture the audio streams off youtube videos. No different that recording a song from the radio onto an audio cassette or recording a TV show onto a video cassette. I'm no audiophile, so imperfections are not a big deal to me.
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It's not entirely the same. Because those old cassettes and CD-R's "Made For Audio" had a tax placed on them that was unnoticed by the consumer. They knew you would be using it for pirating and as such the RIAA was able to get some money out of it. But what the RIAA *can't* do is, is touch the computer industry. So they have lost a large source of revenue that they enjoyed for a couple decades.


17 U.S.C. § 1008 bars copyright infringement action and 17 U.S.C. § 1003 provides for a royalty of 2% of the initial transfer price for devices and 3% for media. The royalty rate in 17 U.S.C. § 1004 was established by the Fairness in Music Licensing Act of 1998. This only applies to CDs which are labeled and sold for music use; they do not apply to blank computer CDs, even though they can be (and often are) used to record or "burn" music from the computer to CD. The royalty also applies to stand-alone CD recorders, but not to CD burners used with computers.
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The election process is useless now because we are only choosing the lesser of two evils. During the campaigning, they say what the sheeple want to hear. Once in office they do little of what the claimed they'd do. Instead they do what the deepest pockets want them to do. Then when election come around again, the sheeple start the whole process over again. We are on the verge of becoming a totalitarian democracy. and if we maintain this downward spiral, we will become a pure totalitarian country.
 
Another example of stupid people making laws. So by definition they outlawed portable music players. Since you cannot put music on the unless you copy it. But spotify is illegal then, since it has on option to store music offline, which is indeed a copy.
 
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