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