This has got to be the most “pathetic” ruling given to the music industry at the High Court.

October 2014, the Intellectual Property Office rendered a long overdue update to its copyright law, allowing people, for the first time, to legally make MP3 copies of CDs they had purchased for their personal use. Most people would have already copied their CD’s without realising this was illegal.

Well the change was short lived. The music industry challenge the ruling made along with businesses including UK Music and the British Academy of Songwriters, who claimed the new measure would cost the rights owners millions of pounds, and now have demanded that a compensation scheme be introduced. Now they want more money for content you already bought!

And last Friday, a High Court a judge ruled in their favour, stating that the government didn’t have enough evidence to conclude that copyright holders would suffer no financial losses.

If CD’s were going to die, this ruling is guaranteed to accelerate that death.

Source – http://www.gizmodo.co.uk