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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. Canada != US by grub · · Score: 5, Insightful


    "Canada Immune From RIAA?"

    Being that the last letter in RIAA stands for "America", I would hope that all nations outside of the US are immune..

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    1. Re:Canada != US by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 5, Insightful
      "Being that the last letter in RIAA stands for "America", I would hope that all nations outside of the US are immune.."

      And the last letter of MPAA stands for "America" but try telling that to Jon Johansen.

  2. Not so fast... by Henry+Stern · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To quote Jay Currie (emphasis mine):

    The amendment to the Act legalized copying of sound recordings of musical works onto audio recording media for the private use of the person who makes the copy (referred to as "private copying"). [1]

    Audio recording media is defined as "Analog Audio Casette Tapes," "MiniDisc, CD-R Audio and CD-RW Audio" and "CD-R and CD-RW." [2] This does not include hard drives (I recall discussion of extending the levy to hard drives), so therefore your hard drive is not "audio recording media" and thus the Act does not legalize file sharing.

    This being said, it would be harder to argue if you immediately burned the downloaded songs to an audio CD, promptly deleting the copy on your hard drive.

  3. a penny a megabyte? by mgs1000 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "As the RIAA's "sue your customer" campaign begins to run into stiffening opposition and serious procedural obstacles it may be time to think about a "Plan B". A small levy on storage media, say a penny a megabyte, would be more lucrative than trying to extract 60 million dollars from a music obsessed, file sharing, thirteen year-old."

    Does this guy know how many megabytes are on a typical CD-R? or on a new hard drive? Let's see, the tax on a new 120Gig drive would be, what, $1200?

  4. Re:Hmm... by Famatra · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Universal health care? Check.
    Lax marijuana laws? Check.
    Can marry another man if for some reason I was feeling saucey? Check.
    and now freedom to share music?
    Canada has always been very free, for example Canada (BC, Quebec) did away with prohibition years (1921 vs. 1933), with the rest of the provinces following soon after, before America ( http://www.sleeman.com/en/heritage/crafthistory-19 00-1999.html ).

    The problem with Americans saying that they are the freest country is that they tend to believe it even if it isnt necessarily so. Self denial and delusion prevents the problem being resolved; ask alcoholics anonymous and why the first step is admitting there is a problem ;).

  5. Re:Welcome! by RollingThunder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We're 1/10th the size of the US. At the time, possibly even smaller, as we've embarked on agressive immigration since WW2. Our casualties were proportional to theirs.

    Also of note is that during WWI, 3/10ths of the adult male Canadian population served in the war, and 56,500 were killed, 149,700 wounded. Hell, at Vimy Ridge we had 10,000 casualties and deaths in one day, out of 100,000 men there. We've always shouldered our share.

  6. Re:Welcome! by Carewolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about 25 million russian deaths?

    What does that have to do with anything?