MSE News: DVD to computer copying to be made legal

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corbyboy wrote: »

They seem to talk about a lot of things they are going to put into law, but they don't follow through with a lot of it.

You've only just figured this out? :rotfl: Yet people still vote for them.

Naf

jamespir wrote: »

good news at last didnt realise it was illegal though oops

Gazman321 wrote: »

About time the government came up with some sense !!! I didn't know it was illegal either, thought you were legally allowed to do that.

Likewise, I thought that I was entitled to view something I had paid for in whatever format I wanted. I paid for 'the film', not 'the-film-on-a-disk-which-is-useless-to-me-as-my-portable-devices-have-no-disk-drive'. Not that this will stop me as in my view I have still paid for the rights to view that film/listen to that track, and I'll do it whenever, wherever and however I like!.

datostar

The 'copyright industry' has long displayed a heads in the sand luddite attitude to the march of technology. They tried to sue that great business guru Alan Sugar when Amstrad brought out a twin-deck video recorder. They weren't keen on ordinary VCR's either. They tried it on with twin-deck audio cassette recorders and mounted a huge propaganda campaign against the alleged very inferior quality of MP3 files until reality intruded.

chattychappy

Yet another populist statement.

No doubt there will be consultation, lunches, inquiries, discussion with EU "partners" and jolly trips on Eurostar.

IP owners should be free to release material on whatever basis they like. If they want to continue with unenforceable/impractical conditions then let them do so.

We just don't need Vince Cable or anyone else spending taxpayer's money thinking about it.

S0litaire

chattychappy wrote: »

Yet another populist statement.

No doubt there will be consultation, lunches, inquiries, discussion with EU "partners" and jolly trips on Eurostar.

IP owners should be free to release material on whatever basis they like. If they want to continue with unenforceable/impractical conditions then let them do so.

We just don't need Vince Cable or anyone else spending taxpayer's money thinking about it.

Trouble is the IP owners are Corporations rather than individuals,
and as much as you hate it, we need things like the government to try and rein-in the Corps.

chattychappy

S0litaire wrote: »

Trouble is the IP owners are Corporations rather than individuals,
and as much as you hate it, we need things like the government to try and rein-in the Corps.

I think people are managing quite well - simply by ignoring the law and not getting prosecuted as the responses in this thread suggest.

Whatever the government comes up with, it will take a long time and spend much (of our) money doing it - and it will be out-of-date by the time they finish.