Late last year the UK Government legalized copying for private use, a practice which many citizens already believed to be legal.
But now several music industry organizations in the UK have won a judicial review which renders the government's decision to allow copying for personal use unlawful. According to the High Court, there's insufficient evidence to prove that the legislation doesn't hurt musicians and the industry at large.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2015, @03:31PM
Yet ample evidence to prove that the inverse is harmful to consumers. This isn't about distributions, an individual purchased the CD in order to listen to it. CD's were originally marketed as the shiny new that was superior to vinyl in every way. They were never sold as something that would deteriorate to uselessness over a 25 year period - format shifting is a requirement of optical media.