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Uk Urged to Legalize Ipod
macdailynews.com — ippr recommends a legal ‘private right to copy’ that would allow people to make copies of CDs, or DVDs for personal us. The report says a new right would legalize the actions of millions of Britons without any significant harm to the copyright holders.
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- waterdrop, on 10/12/2007, -4/+49It's UK and iPod.
- M2Ys4U, on 10/12/2007, -27/+4It's insignificant.
- fartingbob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36Either way its a misleading headline. The iPod is legal in the UK. Legalling ripping an backing up music has been around a hell of alot longer than iPods. I guess its just a lame attempt to get diggs. Needs more "!" in though, and be all in upper case. And maybe have some Wii reference.
- Trention, on 10/12/2007, -11/+7Misleading crap.
Marked as inaccurate. - Odalisque, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@fartingbob
what they are saying is that in the UK it is actually against copyright laws to make a personal backup and illegal to rip a copy for your ipod. basically if you want to abide by the law and have an ipod you can only put recordings of your self and crap like that.
and it is not just the UK, New Zealand and i am pretty sure Australia are just the same, and likely many more.
the problem is that it is illegal to copy music, but it legal to be able to. - Odalisque, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6oops last sentence is meant to be:
the problem is that it is illegal to copy music, but it is legal to have the capacity to - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Do the RIAA have jurisdiction in the UK? If now, whos stopping them? I dont think Scotland Yard is gonna knock on the ripper's doors and arrest them. And if they do, the Jury will let them go! Whats the deal? I bet the Jury do it also!
- NoQuarter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The UK's version of the RIAA is the BPI, the British Phonographic Industry. They haven't been as heavy-handed as the RIAA, but I've read that they're preparing to become more aggressive.
- jamesacres, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Marked inaccurate due to the terrible spelling. Plus it's not to legalise the iPod it's to allow ripping of CDs http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6095612.stm
- JoseGosdin, on 10/12/2007, -67/+2Why should the UK have a right to priate our music?
This is just another example of foreign countries STEALING American money out of the pockets of hard working familes.- Maxeh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Please, please, please... tell me you're kidding.
- JoseGosdin, on 10/12/2007, -45/+2Wow, tell the facts on digg, get dugg down to oblivion.
- floatingpoints, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17"Wow, tell the facts on digg, get dugg down to oblivion."
It's not a fact. It's baseless stupidity and you're officially an idiot. - TonyCubed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Stealing money? hahaha! wait.. you're being serious arn't you?
Let's think about this for a second..
Artist Gets a certain percentage, most artists get less than 50% of the profits. Actually, from What I've seen, artists get like 50cents (American money) per CD/Album sold?
So in fact, the people who are really stealing money out of those hard working familes and hard working artists is the Studio's and Record Label idiots.
Get your facts right before you start saying *****. - mporcheron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13i have to agree, I mean, it's not like the UK has artists or ever invented anything.
/sarcasm (i'm british, most the bands I like are british) - adriantr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8On top of that, most of the world most popular music originates from the UK. You can go all over the world and hear British music in various places, including places which aren't aimed at British tourists.
OK the Americans have produced some good bands and artists but theres better stuff coming out of alot of European countries aswell as Canada among others.
OK so maybe alot of the record labels are American, so what! Thats more reason to "steal" from them, they have way too much money! :p - towner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I dont think that you understood / read the article properly. Try reading it again
- plingboot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Haha. Sorry but you're a bit dumb. Couple of points :
1. Music doesn't just originate from the US
2. Read the article. It's about ripping from CDs that they already own. - GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It seems stupidity is prevalent in the US as well as in the UK then. Very sad.
It's a natural assumption seemingly that everything is created in America despite the facts to the contrary. - mictester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Stealing American money" - HA!
We don't want your worthless "money", we don't want your worthless "music", we don't want to be ruled by a cerifiable moron like your "president"...
- mw00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6095612.stm
- m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -10/+6Am I the only one who read that as "Uk Urged to Legalize Pot"?
- TonyCubed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Yes you are
/sarcasm off - GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2They've already decriminalised it.
- TonyCubed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Yes you are
- terrablebyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"Copyright issues have, in the past, been steered too much by the music industry, the report said."
I'm glad politicians are actually beginning to realise what a bunch of ***** the BPI/RIAA, etc. actually are. - TonyCubed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I find it funny that title mentions iPod, it seems people forget that the iPod isn't the only portable music player around..
- adriantr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5But its by far the most popular so it all helps get the story noticed!
- stonr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4and dugg to the front page!
The article did mention the ipod, but the title is sooo misleading. - dave2010, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yeah mate, I see red when I hear people referring to anything that plays mp3s as an iPod. Makes me real mad. Don't know why really, since anything that can play tapes on the go is a "walkman" to me.
- TonyCubed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It's misleading because it's from a Mac website. But on BBC news, they mention "music players". Very Bias..
- itisme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mp3 is so 90s
get with the ogg.
whilst the titles a bit silly the article is of interest I had no idea UK law was so antiquated luckily the bpi are a bit are reasonable than the riaa and by a bit I really do mean a bit.
that said they're probably just worried that if anyone was brought to justice for copying their own legal copy to their own computer the courts would laugh it out via the EU, well you'd hope!
- towner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm in Uk and I thought pot already was legal .
- bdwoolman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Labour Party onto the youth vote. Wise. This is an issue that matters to young people. Now let's see if the Dems get this smart in the US. So far fair use etc. is not on the issues radar. But it will be. Sooner or later it will be. So far both parties have been in the music industry's pocket. Let's see who jumps out first in a vote grab. This issue will be to the twenty somethings what gun control is to the rural crowd.
- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The youth vote is far more concerned with ending the ridiculous authoritarian bend to be honest. This is the production of a think tank rather than the government. In all likelyhood Blair will respond by being an absolute idiot and banning music or something.
- ninetyone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And in the UK it's legalise. Or is that insignificant?
- Matsu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1A Brit told me that both "ise" and "ize" are perfectly acceptable and IIRC "ize" is preferred by the OED so.
- terrablebyte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"American spelling accepts only -ize endings in most cases, such as organize, recognize, and realize. British usage accepts both -ize and the more French-looking -ise (organise, recognise, realise). However, the -ize spelling is now rarely used in the UK in the mass media and newspapers, and is hence often incorrectly regarded as an Americanism"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ize#-ise_.2F_-ize - terrablebyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Damn digg keeps double posting me. :-(
Please digg down. - arizonagroove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The iPod is illegal in the UK? Why aren't the Police raiding the Apple Stores, Dixons, Argos, Tesco and the other gazzilion places that sell them? Why aren't people being arrested in the street and their iPods seized?
Huh? What's that? iPods aren't illegal in the UK and the person who submitted the story has used the method of title writing known as sensationalist and utterly inaccurate? Well that's that cleared up then. - dstz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Legalize Ipot.
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