Thursday, October 2, 2014

Copying CDs is now legal -- but is it too little, too late?



Today, copyright law in the UK catches up with what people have been doing for decades -- backing up media for personal use is now legal.


Until now, every time you copied media for any reason, you were breaking the law. Even if you weren't sharing the files online or providing copies of the discs to other people, in the eyes of the law you were a criminal. Thankfully, some sense has prevailed, but it's taken a ridiculously long time to come into effect.


By: Matt Kamen,


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