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iTunes Is Illegal Under UK Copyright Law
- strictnein 11y agoKind of a clickbait headline. It's not iTunes in particular, it's any software that can rip CDs. It also covers the backing up of any computer that has copyrighted content on it, which would now apparently be illegal.
- Spivak 11y agoDo the people who make these laws not understand how futile this is? If you can read a CD then you can rip it. You might as well try banning CDs if you actually want to accomplish something.
- Asbostos 11y agoCopying to RAM while playing isn't copying? Or is implicitly permitted by all copyright holders?
- sajal83 11y agoIt is "copying". The same way accessing a webpage is "downloading" it.
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoSo copying anything copyrighted now requires permissions from the company who owns the copyright? So goodbye almost any form of back-up unless it's only personal files (even then formats are copyrighted, is that okay?). Hell just moving things around on your file system may not be good anymore. Did they just want the ability to arrest anyone and say they broke copyright law or something?