Ripping - illegal in UK?

Posted by: kevin J Carden on 28 March 2018

I emailed Chandos Records today to ask why Metadata is not available for any of 3 recent release discs I just bought from them. Here’s their reply:

“Dear Sir,

unfortunately, we cannot help with this matter as in the UK it is still illegal to rip copyright CDs even for personal use.”

I am aware of a High Court dispute a few years ago, but is this true?

How can Naim and others legally sell hardware with ripping capability if so ?

confused.

Posted on: 10 April 2018 by Dozey

That is because computer programs are treated differently to works in electronic form, and we are talking about digital data files here, not computer programs!

That is why i mentioned them to clarify that a ripped CD is not a computer program. You seemed to be confusing the two, or at least being ambiguous. I think we are on the same page here so let's not quarrel.