Vince Cable, the UK business minister, has announced a raft of measures intended to update the UK's copyright laws. One of the most significant recommendations that the government plans to implement is the legalisation of "format shifting" - where users rip content from CDs or DVDs to for their own personal use. "We are talking about big changes," said Mr Cable. Vince recently launched an attack on "rightwing nutters" in America who are trying to block the raising of the US government's debt ceiling and who are, he said, a bigger threat to the world economy than problems in the eurozone.
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