The Null Device

Mix CDs, iPods illegal in UK

In the UK, it is not only illegal to use portable radio transmitters with your iPod (they're legally considered to be pirate radio transmitters, regardless of their range), but, under the draconian EU Copyright Directive just adopted, to copy MP3s you don't own the copyright to to it, or indeed to make mix CDs. I guess I'm leaving my Archos Jukebox at home next time I go there.

There are 3 comments on "Mix CDs, iPods illegal in UK":

Posted by: tom http://rpggenesis.co.uk Sat Dec 6 13:51:17 2003

aye, but nobody gives a flying kcuf. ipods sell fantastically over here - the law is never enforced.

Posted by: acb http://dev.null.org Sat Dec 6 14:03:59 2003

Still, if everybody is (technically) a criminal, it gives the powers that be something to put away troublemakers for. Selective enforcement is a fantastic tool for intimidation.

If they're not going to uniformly enforce the law and throw people into gaol for making copies of their CDs for their cars (i.e., be utter cunts about it), they should strike the law off the books, or amend it so that the honest punter isn't technically a criminal.

Posted by: Ben-Gurion Jacarutu http://www.cliphunter.com/sections/anal.shtml Sun Dec 7 09:38:39 2003

Apparently for most of the 20th century, it was technically illegal to sell second-hand books in Blighty.

The peanut galllery isn't sure if it is still the case....