Backing up legally purchased CD's is now illegal in the UK
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Here’s how the drama started. Back in October of 2014, the UK’s intellectual property officerendered a long overdue update to its copyright law, allowing people, for the first time, to legally make MP3 copies of CDs they had purchased for their personal use. (We’ve got a similar law on the books in the US). The extremely narrow measure—it only applies to content acquired permanently, and only for private, exclusive use—was deemed to cause “zero or insignificant harm” to the music industry. Sound logic, as everybody had already backed up and binned their CD collections long ago and didn’t realize there was an issue.
Surprise! The music industry disagrees. In a challenge made last November, businesses including UK Music and the British Academy of Songwriters claimed the new measure would cost the rights owners tens of millions, and demanded that a compensation scheme be introduced. That’s right—they want more money for content you already bought, and that, if you give two ***** about, you’re going to backup before CD drives disappear forever.
On Friday, a high court judge ruled in their favor, stating that the government didn’t have enough evidence to conclude that copyright holders would suffer no financial losses.
