Legislation is being planned in the name of "anti-counterfeiting" by the G8 countries which is actually a copyright enforcement treaty. It could, suggest experts, mean that you might get arrested by Immigration at US, European and other major countries, if you have an iPod or phone loaded with music.
The essence of the proposed treaty - which is expected to be ratified July this year - is that if you transfer music legally from CD to iPod or Walkman or any other device, you have to prove you own it.
If you've legally ripped your CD collection to your iPod or other player and travel abroad, to one of the nations signing up to the ACTA, you will have to also take some way of proving that the tracks on that device have not been copied illegally.
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