Hi-fi Manufacturers Breaking Ads Law?

[nando]

hi-fi manufacture's advert encouraged people to brake the law-teleghraph,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...dvert-encouraged-people-to-break-the-law.html


Edit: fixed the link for you Nando, Dev

 

[Dev]

Hi Joseph, I fixed the link in your post, and also saw the following on BBC website, thanks to TonyL.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14384268

 

[nando]

thanks dev,
regards,
joseph.

 

[nando]

jazz fm has cacelled the add.

 

[Dev]

Did you click on the link to the BBC website? Not sure it'll be illegal for much longer.

 

[nando]

i did and there is a loop hole that will not make that unit ilegal, also heard that if it were to be so also would be computers.!

 

[Tenson]

Wow, that's bollocks. I was under the impression that if you owned the original, it was okay to make a copy for your personal use.

I think perhaps it is legal to 'make a backup'. So perhaps it is just a stupid case of semantics.

Anyway, I thought all this happened with the advent of cassette tape and people soon realised it was stupid to worry about it.

Who complained to the ASA?

 

[Dev]

Simon, it's always been and still is illegal to copy any LP, CD etc., even for you own personal use (to a PC for example) or backup. As far as I know no record company has prosecuted any individuals for doing it though. Having said that it's a stupid law that looks likely to be scrapped.

 

[nando]

i still use mine, also them.f. clic