iTunes Is Illegal Under UK Copyright Law

Kind of a clickbait headline. It's not iTunes in particular, it's any software that can rip CDs. It also covers the backing up of any computer that has copyrighted content on it, which would now apparently be illegal.

Do the people who make these laws not understand how futile this is? If you can read a CD then you can rip it. You might as well try banning CDs if you actually want to accomplish something.

So copying anything copyrighted now requires permissions from the company who owns the copyright? So goodbye almost any form of back-up unless it's only personal files (even then formats are copyrighted, is that okay?). Hell just moving things around on your file system may not be good anymore.

Did they just want the ability to arrest anyone and say they broke copyright law or something?

Copying to RAM while playing isn't copying? Or is implicitly permitted by all copyright holders?

It is "copying". The same way accessing a webpage is "downloading" it.