• Content ripping 'to be legalised'
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-14372698[/url]
i was thinking about DLC
Like nobody already does this all the time.
[QUOTE=redBadger;31496511]Like nobody already does this all the time.[/QUOTE] That is why they are doing it? The law in the first place was shit to begin with.
I knew this wasn't going to be a US article the moment I read the headline. I was happy there for a moment [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/emoot/smith.gif[/img]
I knew this wouldn't be a US article the moment I read 'BBC News'
Guess instead of arresting millions of people and flooding the prisons, they just decided to legalise it. Though this won't do anything to stop the whole pirated-DVD market, which usually sells crap shit knock-off recordings anyway so I dunno why people bother with them, it's good to know that simple non-commercial copying's gonna be ok, but i'm sure that this legalisation won't extend to the whole file-sharing scene where paid-for products are shipped around for free.
[QUOTE=smurfy;31496556]I knew this wouldn't be a US article the moment I read 'BBC News'[/QUOTE] Well I meant from the front page [img]http://i.imgur.com/p9aFR.jpg[/img] But I'll stop replying now before we go off topic.
C'mon America, let's follow in Britain's footsteps for a couple of things.
[QUOTE=Anti Christ;31496619]Well I meant from the front page [img]http://i.imgur.com/p9aFR.jpg[/img] But I'll stop replying now before we go off topic.[/QUOTE] Ah, you should have checked the pixels
I have been ripping CD's to my iPod for years now.
[QUOTE=MIPS;31497994]I have been ripping CD's to my iPod for years now.[/QUOTE] I didnt know it was illegal because apple encourages it.
[QUOTE=Unreliable;31496623]C'mon America, let's follow in Britain's footsteps for a couple of things.[/QUOTE] we can't 'caus lobbyists.
Good to see that some common sense exists regarding copyright in the UK at last.
this is more interesting to me, the ripping stuff is just "people do it all the time anyway, we aren't stopping them, just make it legal" [quote]...creating an agency to licence copyrighted content.[/quote] To me, that sounds like having an agency we can contact to get permission to use works under fair use and having documentation saying as such - basically telling whichever record/film company submits a copyright claim to youtube to go fuck themselves for example.
[QUOTE=Anti Christ;31496545]I knew this wasn't going to be a US article the moment I read the headline. I was happy there for a moment [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/emoot/smith.gif[/img][/QUOTE]IIRC the Supreme court reviewed this and a various few other things awhile back and said it's okay.
[QUOTE=MIPS;31497994]I have been ripping CD's to my iPod for years now.[/QUOTE] I ripped CD's in the womb, man.
[QUOTE]Content ripping 'to be [B]legalized[/B]'[/QUOTE] Fixed. :eng101:
[QUOTE=Unreliable;31496623]C'mon America, let's follow in Britain's footsteps for a couple of things.[/QUOTE]I thought this was already legal in the US as long as it was for personal use and you didn't distribute them
[QUOTE=subenji99;31500210]this is more interesting to me, the ripping stuff is just "people do it all the time anyway, we aren't stopping them, just make it legal" To me, that sounds like having an agency we can contact to get permission to use works under fair use and having documentation saying as such - basically telling whichever record/film company submits a copyright claim to youtube to go fuck themselves for example.[/QUOTE] US style fair use law would be great in the UK to be honest, the current situation isn't very good.
Wasn't this always legal? I mean, I remember being told it's only alright to burn a copy of a cd if it's one you own and for your own personal use.
[QUOTE=gokuman4594;31500515]Fixed. :eng101:[/QUOTE] it works both ways bro
I thought it was already legal.
[quote]"The review pointed out that if you have a situation where 90% of your population is doing something, then it's not really a very good law," said Simon Levine, head of the intellectual property and technology group at DLA Piper[/quote] Very good. Now why don't they apply this concept to some other dumbass laws that don't make sense?
Common sense? In my copyright law?
So basically they kicked the DEA in the nuts and are giving internets more freedom Fuck yeah UK!
This article has been updated now it seems, its now talking about the website blocking portion of the DEA and how its going out the window. Too much common sense at the moment.
[QUOTE=Master Kief-117;31505960]Very good. Now why don't they apply this concept to some other dumbass laws that don't make sense?[/QUOTE] So, if 90% of the community was doing drugs or committing murder, then those should be legal?
[QUOTE=Frisk;31507761]So, if 90% of the community was doing drugs or committing murder, then those should be legal?[/QUOTE]How is that even comparable you dolt.
[QUOTE=Frisk;31507761]So, if 90% of the community was doing drugs or committing murder, then those should be legal?[/QUOTE] Impossible and incomparable.
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