catbirdseat Posted March 31, 2004 Posted March 31, 2004 So Canada has no copy right laws? Does that mean you only need one copy of Microsoft Word for the entire country? Quote
Dru Posted March 31, 2004 Posted March 31, 2004 where did it say there are no copyright laws? nowhere. Â all it says is that duplication for non-commercial, personal use is ok Quote
stinkyclimber Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 Hardly freedom. We have to pay a special tax on blank recording media to compensate artists for their loss to copyright violators. The judge's ruling is based largely on this tax: essentially, since the recording industry is making a shitload off this tax as "compensation", the judge feels that they are getting what they asked for and that they should then just fuck the hell off when it comes to invading the privacy of ISP users to obtain evidence of downloading (which is what the case is actually about...the RIAA is asking for a court order to ISPs to release info about downloaders). The recording industry is essentially getting fucked by their own little shitty deal they made with the gov't years ago on this issue. Losers. Â "The regulators cited a long-standing rule in Canada, in which most copying for personal use was allowed. To repay artists and record labels for revenues lost by this activity, the government imposes a fee on blank tapes, CDs and even hard-disk-based MP3 players such as Apple's iPod, and distributes those revenues to copyright holders." Â This all means, BTW, that using MS Windows on more than one computer is still illegal here. But hey, so is pot, but that doesn't stop a lot of people from smoking it. Quote
Peter_Puget Posted April 1, 2004 Author Posted April 1, 2004 "The regulators cited a long-standing rule in Canada, in which most copying for personal use was allowed. To repay artists and record labels for revenues lost by this activity, the government imposes a fee on blank tapes, CDs and even hard-disk-based MP3 players such as Apple's iPod, and distributes those revenues to copyright holders." Â Isn't that the same in the US at least as far as blank tape goes? Quote
Dru Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 they ya go, every cd-r i buy legally allows me to download music to fill it up  record industry Quote
Dave_Schuldt Posted April 1, 2004 Posted April 1, 2004 I heard that that the conglomerates that own the big record companies make more money selling things with cd burners in them than they do off the record companies. Quote
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