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Canada Immune From RIAA?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the is-everything-better-in-canada dept.

Nick McKay writes "Tech Central Station is carrying a story on how Canadians are legally allowed to copy music not only in the home environment, but also on P2P networks such as Kazaa."

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  1. Re:Canada-Runs! by Brad+Cossette · · Score: 5, Informative

    Considering we're 1/10th the U.S.'s size, it's foolish to think this'll last for long. The Canadian variant of the RIAA has been making noises here as well. The law here on copying files is a little murky - the articles up here indicate that a similar "sue-em-all" campaign could be launched, just that it'd be harder. Some of our ISP's (Bell for example) have ownership by U.S. corporations/parent companys, and you could expect some leverage applied that way.

    I guess it'll give more mileage to South Park's "Blame Canada!" song...

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  2. So Fast by CheeseburgerBlue · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read the act more carefully. Back-ups of any and all digital media for personal use is absolutely covered.

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  3. Re:Welcome! by BrynM · · Score: 5, Informative
    Nice patriotism, but get your fact straight. From WorldWar-2.net:
    05/09/1939 : The United States declares its neutrality in this war. 10/09/1939 : After a formal parliamentary debate, Canada declares war on Germany. 17/09/1939 : American aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh makes his first anti-intervention radio speech. The U.S. non-intervention movement is supported not just by Lindbergh, but by former president Herbert Hoover, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Henry Ford and a number of senators and congressmen as well.
    Once again, we wait to get smacked in the head (Pearl Harbor) before we actually do something. Might I suggest that you lay off the rhetoric and go read some history. Maybe then we might know better.
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