“The UK music industry has rejected the Government’s proposal to legalise the transfer of music from CDs to MP3 players without a levy. It has asked for a tax on devices like Apple iPods which it says should compensate artists for the transfer.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th April 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
Bizarre. If you’ve paid for the CD, “what’s their problem?” It would never even have occurred to me that this was illegal. Not that I’ve got an ipod.