David Looser wrote:
"No Win No Fee" wrote
Technically, what you basically proposed you would remain
in the clear, inasmuch if you were to make one copy for
personal use and donated the original copyright CD to a charity
shop and they re-sold the original "pre-owned" CD, that would not
be a problem.


That *is* a problem since it is a clear breach of copyright law.

Do not forget we are talking UK law here, not US law.


Copy protection code incorporated into commercial CD/DVD's allows
for one copy to be produced. Of course one can make numerous copies
from the original disc. Those copies will have copy protection
activated. The copy protection prevents copies being made from
copies - serial copying.
Selling "pre-owned" commercial CD's/DVD's is no problem, pop along
to your local games trading store. It is long established.

But if Keef were to make a copy of a protected CD, and donate the
*copy* to his local charity store who then sold the copy, that would
be an infringement.

Where legal action has resulted for piracy is where ripping software
was used to defeat serial copying code, software such as Turd v3 etc.
And such duplicates were circulated whereby copying of the copy was
possible. Serial copying is a major problem with downloads via
file sharing sites.

In context of what Keef suggested, donating a CD to a charity shop
which then re-sold the CD marked up as "pre-owned" is 100% legal.


The clueless clique

That will be you then.....


David.

You've made yourself look silly again.