When you look at your CD collection what do you see? Does it bring back happy memories of wading through shelves filled with Prefab Sprout albums or of eagerly waiting for the latest Ace of Base effort to come out? It might come as a surprise to some music lovers when they realise that the humble CD is now 30 years old. It is fair to say that its golden age has passed...

The UK government is expected to abolish laws that prevent UK consumers from making digital copies of CDs and DVDs that they own for personal use. This practice has been followed by people for a long time, but only some of them knew that they were breaking the law by copying the content of their CDs and DVDs to other media devices. The amendments to the old law comes after...