[Gllug] Uh oh, ministers consider "anti file-sharing laws"

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On 25 Oct 2007, Jason Clifford spake thusly:
> Under UK law (both English (and thus Welsh) and Scots, it would be
> unlawful as the law does not recognise a license to the materials on the
> physical media but only the purchase of the physical media. You have
> been sold a single copy tied to that specific media. The law (Copyright,
> Designs and Patents Act) specifically forbids copying it to another
> media.

This is, of course a law which most of the country is guilty of
breaking, including a large number of Members of Parliament (perhaps the
majority). (The MPs are brazen about it, too: they walk around inside
the House with these damned infringement devices on like there was
nothing wrong at all.)

It is *tremendously* unlikely that transferring music you own to your
ipod will lead to prosecution. It's *technically* illegal, but only
technically.

(IANAL but my cousin is and tried to get me to place a bet with him on
this subject. Not being an idiot, and agreeing with him anyway, I
declined.)

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