The US did the same thing on VHS and audio cassette tapes and IMO it's the most reasonable solution overall. We were actually going to be prevented from legally taping over-the-air content. The legal compromise was that we could do so for personal use only, and a small fee would be assessed to recordable media since the most common use of the media was for recording copyrighted material. I'm willing to bet that is equally true for CDs and DVDs. Of course, some of that fee should go directly to the content creators. In cases where a decent amount does not, to me that's an injustice. SOMEhow revenue must be captured and distributed for content creators. It's only fair. I'm willing to entertain better solutions than what's in place now.