The FPB is making themselves ridiculous. A vast lot of south africans will become criminals in terms of their various legislations. All their legislations are intended only to enrich themselves, not to protect company copyrights or artists. What else will the money collected for licensing, be used for, than to put into their own pockets. Even making a copy of a movie or cd or vinyl record for your own purposes, to have a backup, is illegal in terms of the FPB. I myself, have spend a lot of time to clean my vinyls, to get them static free and clean. Then played it while recording it. Then used software to remove all static and other unwanted sounds, and ripped it onto a cd. I own the record, so why cant I make a decent copy of it for my own personal use only. No one is losing money because of me making good (better) backups of my stuff. But according to FPB I am a criminal for doing so.
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The FPB is making themselves ridiculous. A vast lot of south africans will become criminals in terms of their various legislations. All their legislations are intended only to enrich themselves, not to protect company copyrights or artists. What else will the money collected for licensing, be used for, than to put into their own pockets. Even making a copy of a movie or cd or vinyl record for your own purposes, to have a backup, is illegal in terms of the FPB. I myself, have spend a lot of time to clean my vinyls, to get them static free and clean. Then played it while recording it. Then used software to remove all static and other unwanted sounds, and ripped it onto a cd. I own the record, so why cant I make a decent copy of it for my own personal use only. No one is losing money because of me making good (better) backups of my stuff. But according to FPB I am a criminal for doing so.