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Here in the UK, it's currently illegal - the High Court ruled in favour of the Musicians Union back 2015, and it's yet to be overturned (again). The distinctio

Here in the UK, it's currently illegal - the High Court ruled in favour of the Musicians Union back 2015, and it's yet to be overturned (again). The distinction is, that while it's NOT illegal to copy a CD to another format, it IS illegal to make a copy of something that has someone else's copyright on it, be it music, spoken word, written documents, videos or photos etc.

judysjacket 4y ago
>it IS illegal to make a copy of something that has someone else's copyright on it That can't be true. It would mean doing backups are effectively illegal (can only backup your own files, not programs or the OS or any other files not created by oneself)
- Jaruzel 4y ago
  Unfortunately it is true. Explained in the last paragraph of this section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#United_Kingdom