[Arstechnica] It’s now legal to make backups of movies, music, and e-books in the UK

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Back in June, the United Kingdom outlined new copyright rules that would allow citizens to make backups of their music, movies, and e-books. Previously, making copies of media was illegal.

Today, those laws officially go into effect.

It is, however, still illegal to share those backups with friends or family, and making copies of rented media, or media that a person pays a subscription for (like Rdio or Netflix), likewise remains illegal. Media consumers are allowed to change formats—burning MP3s on a CD, for instance—but media vendors are allowed to use all kinds of DRM to keep users from doing just that (like Amazon does with its e-books, for example). […]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/its-now-legal-to-make-backups-of-movies-music-and-e-books-in-the-uk/