But...but...but......
...I thought piracy was destroying music sale, because as we are so often told, that 13 year old with 10 thousand titles on their pc would have otherwise paid £10,000 for them.
Amazingly, 12 per cent of British people watching TV are listening to music from another source as they watch. Or maybe that isn’t so amazing. Maybe you need to play Napalm Death while watching The X Factor - and who could blame you? Tech-mad Brits also spend more on music per head than the G7 average - but which drives which …
No, we've never had that in the UK. There's just been an unwritten agreement (I think the police may even have gone as far as to actually state it) that, while technically illegal, nobody would be arrested/prosecuted for it.
In the UK, there was no exemption for media conversion (backup), but it was commonly accepted that there was no point in trying to prosecute someone for copying their LPs to cassette for use in the car.
Nothing in the digital age had changed that until this recent change, so technically it was still against copyright law, and this included ripping CDs for use in an MP3 player or computer. There is no fair-use provision in UK copyright legislation.
There had been various suggestions about formalising exceptions, but none had made it into an amendment to the copyright legislation until now.
can FRO, they're just in it for the money. The progressive rock scene in the UK has been crowdfunding, self promoting and distributing for years. Smaller bands these days don't make money out of music sales anyway, it's the touring and merchandise, provided the venues themselves aren't asking too much of a cut of what they think they 'deserve' for kindly hosting your band and fans. Gits.