I'll put my hands up, I do make illegal copies of CDs. The grand total of English pounds the record industry has lost is £0.00 for the simple reason that I have a finite amount of money available to buy CDs and, due to the sheer volume of material released, the stuff I copy I would not be able to afford to buy legitimate copies of. I've been buying records pretty well every week for the past 35 years and will continue doing so.
I would be happy to pay a modest levy on blank discs to compenate the creators of music but this nonsense is, as David says in his blog, unworkable hogwash.

literally as I type, put the 'cuffs on officer. It's a fair cop guv, bang to rights!

that is very wrong and you are both very naughty boys and should get a slapped wrist sent to bed without any suppert etc etc yadda yadda yadda ;)

I think the real issue here is this attempt to claim that making a personal copy of a CD that you have purchased is illigal. I have converted my own [ok ok mostly] fully paid for CD collection to MP3 and have copies on my Zen player as well as my home & work computers, thus making me 3 time offender...a charge to which my reply would be something short pithy and anglo-saxon.

I still buy CDs when I can't find a decent legal download (i.e. good quality and no DRM). But I don't have a CD player in the house anymore, CDs go straight onto the PC are ripped to FLAC and MP3 and then they are put in a draw and never looked at again...

I know who's next on their list, all those people who buy CDs rip them and then sell them on ebay!

Should they not therefore prosecute the software providers like Microsoft who make this possible? What else could ripping and burning be for? I suppose they'd say it was meant for music you make youself.