Page 1 of Ripping DVDs and CDs to be legal in UK

As if anyone cared anyway, but format shifting and backing up CDs and DVDs that you've bought (and presumably Blu-ray too) will be legal in the UK:
http://betanews.com/2014/03/28/uk-set-to-make-ripping-your-cds-and-dvds-legal/


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Was it not already? Oops!.

I've usually got mine "backed up" 4-6 weeks before the retail date.

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Rob Shepherd says...
"backing up CDs"
I always found the illegality of this bizarre, mainly because Microsoft, one of the stanchest supporters of copyright, has always enabled CD ripping by default in Windows Media Player.


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