Article: Ripping games may become legal in Britain soon

[Zeus]

You can view the page at http://www.maxconsole.net/content.php?45927-Ripping-games-may-become-legal-in-Britain-soon

[Rivent]

No reason not to. Stolen media will be all over torrent sites either way so there is no reason not to let the people buying the damn products make the most of their purchase.

[DEDDOA]

I doubt it will pass, some collective mdeia giants will put money inthe right pockets and sugest people who make copies are drug dealers and terrorists and that that infat the laws against this should be tightened and would a few mp's like a free all expenses paid holiday to their new home abroad they didn't know they had untill this was mentioned etc.

I'll be pleasently suprised, but in a big corporate world business comes first, and if it can be ugested that anything may impact that then it's a no no.

Give it a few hundred years and no doubt election will be for you favourite company spokesperson instead of mp's, would likely save a lot of arseing around as well as that would cut out the middle men and mp's pretending to be "advisors" to companies.

[DEDDOA]

No reason not to. Stolen media will be all over torrent sites either way so there is no reason not to let the people buying the damn products make the most of their purchase.

That means bugger all to these people in parliment who are not int he know, these are the people who are outraged about stuff they have never heard or seen, and only comment on what they think they have been told about it by other people who themselves were int he same situation.

[Xenogears V]

I think that ripping or backup dvd, cd, bluray, if owned, is legal. The problem is when people use backup to amke money.

[tech3475]

I find it funny in a way, many households have broken the law and major corporations supported what is legally piracy.

If they do make it legal, then things like USB loaders should also be legal because it's also format shifting.

But I bet some clause will either block it or make it ****ed somehow like in the us where iirc you can legally back something up but cant distribute the tools to do so and the DMCA.

[osnoozeo]

I find it funny in a way, many households have broken the law and major corporations supported what is legally piracy.

If they do make it legal, then things like USB loaders should also be legal because it's also format shifting.

But I bet some clause will either block it or make it ****ed somehow like in the us where iirc you can legally back something up but cant distribute the tools to do so and the DMCA.

the dmca and riaa are the biggest peices of shits! u know damn right 1 of those 2 will drop a few million bucks in campaign contributes, and u wont hear about it again.

[MadonnaProject]

hear hear.

[unwanted]

I already move media from one format to another, if I purchased it on one format and want it moved to another, I do it myself... it should be this way anyway... its only the likes of Sony that want to keep total control of it and make you pay again and again...

[ThreeDog]

That means bugger all to these people in parliment who are not int he know, these are the people who are outraged about stuff they have never heard or seen, and only comment on what they think they have been told about it by other people who themselves were int he same situation.
Yeah this is true, Sent several messages to my local and they honestly don't give a crap, even tried to get the moron to read torrentfreak LOL

[tech3475]

Yeah this is true, Sent several messages to my local and they honestly don't give a crap, even tried to get the moron to read torrentfreak LOL

You should have said you wont vote for him/her at the next election.

Besides, 99.9999% of the population will be ignorant and the fact that torrent is in the name of the site will make people think its piracy.

[kcvfr400]

Yeah this is true, Sent several messages to my local and they honestly don't give a crap, even tried to get the moron to read torrentfreak LOL

torrentfreak is for the weird people in life. I read a few links you put up on here and one used the arguement of oppression of speech by the church controlling the ability to print and doctored it to be copyright which was a total farce.

Cannot see how this article can be for games unless you mean retro roms as films and music have viable reasons to back up into another format due to mp3 players and media players in general. There is no device for games.

[ThreeDog]

torrentfreak is for the weird people in life. I read a few links you put up on here and one used the arguement of oppression of speech by the church controlling the ability to print and doctored it to be copyright which was a total farce.
For the weird people in life? Fair enough I'd hate to be 'normal' anyway :D

The articles I tend to link are the more dramatic ones I will admit, but as far as torrentfreak goes it's extremely useful in giving an alternative opinion with an overview of what's going on.

@tech3475 yeah I would have but they wouldn't believe me anyway.

[Patango]

It's clear from reading the publication that this in no way applies to games. It's about fair use (allowing the use of music and movies on the multiple devices you own), with a few caveats such as those for academics involved in research.

The title is misleading and totally incorrect, it will in no way legitimise the ripping of games.