Kim Weatherall has been following the discussion regarding personal use copying and copyright (here, here, here and here) and considers it from the point of view of Australian law (Fair Use - Should It or Should It Not Cover Private Copying?).

[I]nsofar as the personal copying issue matters - the problem here is that the law just looks stoopid. Ultimately, a law that makes thousands of ordinary acts by ordinary people using ordinary consumer technology infringements makes no sense - especially when it looks meaner and nastier than US law. But I don't get the sense that anyone denies we have a problem here. The real issue is whether we can reach sufficient agreement on how to fix it. Now there's a challenge and a half. [italics in original]