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Canadian Music Industry Wants Royalties on Net Usage

Posted by michael on from the greed-kills dept.

Dr. Zoidburg writes "Apparently Internet music and movie sharing in Canada has gained enough popularity to turn the heads of the music and movie industry. CTV has a report about a Canadian organization named SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada) that will "ask the Supreme Court of Canada next week to force Internet service providers to pay them royalties for the millions of digital music files downloaded each year by Canadians". Says the president of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers, "Consumers could very well see an increase in their Internet costs and they could see a slowdown in the transmission speed of their Internet communications"."

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  1. Bzzzzt! by heironymouscoward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "WRONG ANSWER!"

    "SOCAN" is not a representative of the Entertainment Industry, all such organizations must have acronyms ending in "A" or "AA".

    "SOCAN" is most likely a Canadian organization, possibly standing for "So Canada, SO CANADA,..."

    "Next question: what does SHALSHODT stand for?"

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  2. Plan! by arose · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1. Claim [insert big group of people] owes you money.
    2. ???
    3. Infinite profit.

    * ??? beeing taxation by private companies, that may or may not produce something.

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  4. Re:Then never complain... by jst666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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