AAAaaaand.... It's gone!

S0litaire

Just a quick note.

9 months ago it became legal to rip CD's that you own.

Did you think it would last as long?

It's now illegal again to rip CD's for personal use...

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a659052/its-illegal-to-rip-your-cds-again-just-nine-months-after-law-allowing-it-was-introduced.html

jbainbridge

Interesting ... though I'm not going to loose any sleep over it. Pointless and unenforceable sums it up.

[Deleted User]

Best option, to stay completely legal, is to buy your CDs from Amazon then.. you get to play them from the cloud without ever 'ripping' them yourself.

k599rag

Why don't u just forget the CD and get Spotify for free. If not free, pay £10 a month (price of a CD) and listen to anything. Can't c why anyone would buy CD's now. It's not like they are like vinyl records, which have a certain sound.

gjchester

S0litaire wrote: »

Did you think it would last as long?

More to the point, as very few people cared when it was illegal to record Records, Tapes, Cd's, whatever to another format, to stop doing in the the last 50 or so years that the audio cassette first arrived on the scene to make it possible.

Will anyone care now?

BJV

Not sure if it will have any impact. People did it before it was legal, during and just because the rules have changed again don't think it will stop them.

windup

Whilst I admire and respect many inventors and members of the creative industries, I do think they should consider winding back the greed dial a little once they hit multi millionaire status. Success seems to coincide with a complete loss of perspective

How many times and how much do you expect someone to pay to listen to the same song (or watch the same film) in 20 different formats, mixed 10 different ways, on 100 different compilations whilst you sit on a beach somewhere waiting for the royalties to buy another car/house/jet?

unworkable laws don't last, if format shifting is stopped with technology, your cd will stop being bought or listened to.

esuhl

k599rag wrote: »

Why don't u just forget the CD and get Spotify for free. If not free, pay £10 a month (price of a CD) and listen to anything. Can't c why anyone would buy CD's now. It's not like they are like vinyl records, which have a certain sound.

Of course they are -- CDs are encoded at a much higher bitrate than cheap & nasty streaming services.

Spotify, etc., are great for discovering new music, and for playing the occasional tune that's not in your collection. But why would you want lossless streaming as the only way to listen to music?!

And there's so much music that isn't on Spotify too.

Sharon87

This won't change anything to be honest. As someone said, people ripped CDs before and will do it again.

I still buy CDs as sometimes it's cheaper than just the MP3 download! And I do buy most of my CDs from the band themselves, like through Pledge Music or the band's own website, as well as places like Amazon for some of the bigger bands I listen to.

Sharon87

esuhl wrote: »

Of course they are -- CDs are encoded at a much higher bitrate than cheap & nasty streaming services.

Spotify, etc., are great for discovering new music, and for playing the occasional tune that's not in your collection. But why would you want lossless streaming as the only way to listen to music?!

And there's so much music that isn't on Spotify too.

Agree with you. I'd rather own a copy of certain music, so I don't have to rely on Spotify keeping it on their streaming service. One day it's there but another day it may be gone. I'd rather not let those companies dictate which songs I can access and which songs I can't.

Besides streaming services pay rubbish to the artists, they may get a couple of pennies for thousands of streams. I would rather give them £10 for a physical CD

glentoran99

Sharon87 wrote: »

Agree with you. I'd rather own a copy of certain music, so I don't have to rely on Spotify keeping it on their streaming service. One day it's there but another day it may be gone. I'd rather not let those companies dictate which songs I can access and which songs I can't.

Besides streaming services pay rubbish to the artists, they may get a couple of pennies for thousands of streams. I would rather give them £10 for a physical CD

how much do you think the artist gets of that?