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Inventive Software
6th June 2006, 20:18
Just been reading on Ceefax, I'm gonna quote the article:


UK music fans can copy own tracks

UK music fans no longer face the threat of prosecution for copying their own CDs on to PCs or MP3 players, as long as the songs are only for personal use.

Peter Jamieson, chairman of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), said consumers would only be penalised if they made duplicates of songs for other people.

Currently anyone transferring music to portable devices breaks copyright laws.

The music industry has traditionally turned a blind eye, however, in favour of trageting "professional" pirates.


It's a start. Maybe the RIAA and MPAA will follow their lead! I'd like to see the same done for movies, as with the video ipod and PSP and other similar portable devices available, the popularity of movies on the go will dramatically increase in the same fashion as music.

Doom9
6th June 2006, 20:58
got a link for that?

Mr_Odwin
7th June 2006, 09:29
It's up on the bbc site too:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5053658.stm

Right next to this article on the technology subsite:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5051826.stm

SeeMoreDigital
7th June 2006, 20:42
Finally... a bit of "fair use" sanity for us down-trodden UKer's ;)

Morte66
8th June 2006, 18:00
Right next to this article on the technology subsite:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5051826.stm

I'd better spend the rest of my $25 quickly, then. :)

If there was an RIAA approved site that sold decent quality files (192kbps AAC/OGG plus APE/FLAC/etc), at a decent price (USD 0.50/song + 0.05/MB), with no DRM, I'd spend a fortune on it. They'd get far more money out of me than they do now.

While they're at it, the labels should release 32kbps mono HE-AAC samples of the first half of every song they have, with permission granted to freely redistribute them for evaluation purposes. Tag each file with links to music stores and call them "tryout files" with a new file extension, ".try". They should put them on marketing sites for specific artists/albums, and also run their own genral eD2K server. Their customers would end up doing most of the marketing for them by re-sharing the files.

Oh well, more fool the RIAA.