copying comming up to date

[alonebfg]

To ensure the correct balance in IP rights, the Review recommends:

• ensuring the IP system focuses resources on tackling genuinely illegitimate activity.

The Review recommends introducing a ‘private copying’ exception to enable users

to format-shift content;

this is taken form the pre budget report which can be found here bbc news it sounds good to me and if it come in i think it will help. i was just wondering what everyone else thought. Its about time the law came into line with 2006. Have asked and this would mean if a dvd is owned you can leaglly put it onto a hard drive without breaking the law.

[alonebfg]

just thought if it does happen i will be able to put all my old lps onto cd without a worry even the 45s

[SpuffMonkey]

Might even let us rip films on to our streaming media servers!

[alonebfg]

it seems that way as long as you are not shareing with the outside world also you could recode dvd as divx and not have to worry about paying for codecs for all the machines.