European Copyright Madness Court Strikes Down Law Allowing Users to Rip Their Own CDs IT IS NOW ILLEGAL TO COPY CDS, DVDS & BLU RAYS THAT YOU OWN FOR YOU OWN PERSONAL USE IN UK!!!In a nutshell, the court struck down the UK government’s decision to allow users to lawfully make copies of content that they have purchased for personal use, given the absence of a compulsory levy to compensate copyright owners for the “harm” that they suffer from such copying. The government’s choices are now to remove the private copying exception—making personal copying illegal again, or to supply additional evidence that copyright owners suffer no or minimal “harm” from personal copying, or else to begin imposing a new tax on users to compensate the industry for that “harm”. Source Just a heads up
