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Napster Canada Launched
PunchMonkey writes "Just days after the Napster UK launch, Napster Canada is now online. Tracks start at CDN$1.19 and albums at CDN$9.95. Interactive streaming is also available for the first time in Canada for CDN$9.95 a month. Napster is the the third online music service to be launched in Canada (following PureTracks and ArchambaultZik), not including the branded Puretracks sites Sympatico Music Store and PureTracks from Telus." (Be prepared for a trio of rejection notices if you're neither running nor spoofing IE under Windows.)
Why would you start a new music service with higher prices than the existing competition? A lot of PureTracks' songs (though admittedly not all) are CDN$0.99. They must really be relying on name-brand recognition, though I doubt they are going to get much beyond "but, but, songs were free on Napster!" Still, nice to see competition, even if only of the inept kind. Now if they would just let me have my songs on both my home and work computers at the same time...
Napster used to be so cool, but now it hangs out with the plastics and makes fun of regular people.
What happened, Napster, what happened?
$1.19 Can works out to 0.86 USD. Cheaper than the US non-subscriber version. Still not cheap enuff if you ask me.
Now IANAL and IANAC, but I thought that music downloading (though not sharing) was legal in Canada.
English is easier said than done.
And I can get a physical copy with pretty linear notes to go with it.
Your CPU is not doing anything else, at least do something.
is aus thats pretty close to the same amount as buying the cd from the store. y would u bother getting an mp3 version when u could goto your store and get a retail copy with covers in proper quality for the same amount? they say that they are trying to help the record industry but they are trying to to stop the manufactoring of cd's and record stores?
http://www.thegreynomads.com
I'm going to start my own music service selling songs downloaded off napster. I'll switch back and forth buying them from the US and Canada depending on the exchange rates. Here's how it will go:
1. Buy songs from canada or us
2. Sell to american's or canadians for a penny less
3. Profit!
Well, at least they only sue you for about $.72 on the dollar...
Come on iTunes get it in gear! I'm still waiting for mac iTunes.
The leader in online music sales can't seem to sell internationally.
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I support spreading santorum
Who would someone pay to "rent" a song. If you cancel the service you loose the song. Unless they got a better license than any of the other services (besides iTMS)
Evolution or ID?
USA Today recently had this article on how some albums were cheaper to buy brand new in offline stores than online.
Basically, any track is sold as 99c (US). Any album on Napster is sold for $10. But then if the album is incomplete, what's being sold is a collection of songs, not album. So if the original CD has 21 songs and costs $13 in the store, but only 20 songs were licensed for online resale to Napster/iTunes, then the product will be a 20-song collection, and cost $19.80 respectively.
Does this mean that the only available download artists are Bryan Adams, Alanis Morrisette and Barenaked Ladies while the "Classic Rock" section is filled with Rush and Gordon Lightfoot?
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. -- Hunter S. Thompson
interesting that an online music pay service would decide to launch (and obviously spend a lot of resources on this launch, especially when it's so soon after the previously noted UK launch) in of all places, canada. why is this interesting? well, because in canada, file sharing (uploading, i believe) is legal. this means that people are really open about using p2p networks, and they're really popular. what makes napster think that with their drm scheme they can be more popular than the already (legal) free standard up there in canada? i'll be curious as to how the canadian people react to this, and the whole "wait-we're-getting-it-for-free-legally-already-an d-you-want-me-to-pay-for-it-though?" thing...
i was searching through puretracks, and i found the urban (rnb/rap) collection was quite limited, hopefully napster will fill this void
(and please don't start with the 'rap sucks blah blah blah' arguments)
Marge, get me your address book, 4 beers, and my conversation hat.
Hear Say Music? Good, indie music. Online music store.
It's just like Windows!
It is interesting to note that the Canadians have it cheaper than the US. According to this currency converter, 1.19 CAD is .87 USD and 9.99 CAD is 7.23 USD. Perhaps a lack of litigation is to blame?
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
How many ppl here use US Napster?
Must-not-watch TV!
As the poster mentions, non-ie browsers get rejected by the Telus service.
"Thank you for visiting Puretracks from TELUS" Currently our website supports Internet Explorer 5.0 and above on the Windows operating system (Win 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP / 2003), and is available to Canadian residents only."
"We value our Mac audience, however the Windows Media player for the Mac platform is not currently compatible with Microsoft protected audio content."
No mention of other OS users. It still really bothers me that companies are too stupid to write websites that are standards-compliant and work on all platforms.
"The television is the retina of the mind's eye" - Videodrome
Anne Murray
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Gordon Lightfoot
Rush
Celine Dion
Why do I need this again?
Canadians are currently permitted to borrow a friend's CD and make copies for personal, non-commercial use. However they are not allowed to make a copy for someone else. It is widely believed that this allows downloading but not uploading.
The CRIA has launched John Doe lawsuits against uploaders but recently suffered a legal setback when a judge ruled that they had failed to provide sufficient evidence of a copyright violation to subpoena the identities of some anonymous uploaders. However, members of the federal government have promised new legislation to close what they call "legal loopholes". That may just have been election year pandering. We'll have to wait and see.
In any case there are many Canadians who would willingly pay a reasonable amount per song to purchase music via download in order to get known quality, selection, and lack of liability. I would be one of them except that I refuse to pay money for DRM-encumbered files -- if I pay to buy something, I expect to own it.
Something tells me they want JS and Cookies enabled?
Calling atheism and agnosticism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
I'm sorry, my wallet is not currently compatible with your store.
Napster is currently compatible with MS's flag OS's.
Other OS's are not supported at this time and never will.
If you are planning on getting me to spend my money on this store, the service will not be compatible and you should discontinue trying to do any business with me. If you will support *my* computer and *my* operating system, please continue.
Ah, and MS will eat you for lunch, good luck.
0.99 USD = $1.37 CDN
...so technically Napster Canada is cheaper than iTunes. But this is assuming you only listen to music on your computer. They charge extra to transfer the song, unlike iTunes, where it's the same price whether you burn it to a CD, transfer it to your iPod, or whatever.
Napster and the others need to deal with the fact that they've been beaten by Apple.
Forget Napster, iTunes, et al.
The Russian equivalent to iTunes - allofmp3.com - is the way forward for all your music needs!!
You pay 1 cent a megabyte so $10 gets you a gigabyte of mp3 download - and you can pay using Paypal in case you're worried about your Credit Card getting stolen by a shady Russkie...
Cheap, cheerful and legal (at least in the eyes of Russian law) and they have a great selection (better than iTunes as it includes European chart music also).
I know most people like the feel of something physical (heh) that they can collect and look at aswell as listen too and thats why they buy cds or records. Other people might not care about that and just want the music, but what would make these people pay for it other than guilt or genuinely wanting to support the musician? anyone here use these services? my personal way of thinking is: if i respect the musician then ill buy the cd if its cheap, or get a copy off someone. If i think the musician is a worthless tart-bitch-whore who sounds so generic it could be anyone and is singing something so utterly pointless that it could be a hum and the melody is either copied, adapted or sampled directly.. then i just say fuck it, this is something im just going to listen to this week because its slightly catchy and its playing everywhere, fire-up p2p click click click.
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to download music here in Canada (upload/download) music via P2P. What is Napster thinking?!
The real question is, will they have William Shatners albums available for download?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
1. No restrictions on what I do with it.(any player)
2. I can use the OS of my choice (Slackware)
3. The price more accurately reflects the production/distribution costs.
4. There has to be something worth purchasing.
In other words...never.
Adrian
Yeah, but does it support OGG?
You want to know who isn't running Firefox 2.x? They spell it "definately" and "rediculous".
I really wasn't expecting hear that tune whilst watching the flash animation.
I would've thought they would've been more picky about who uses their songs (i.e. a company that is in bed with all the big evil record companies).
Napster price comparison:
:-)
(at current exchange rate)
Napster Canada: $1.19 Canadian = $0.87 US
Napster USA: $0.99 US
Napster UK: 0.99 GBP = $1.80 US
Why do us Brits get such a raw deal? I guess music prices have always been this unfair. I was going to say that hopefully when some more services launch, competition will bring the price down, but this is the RIAA we are talking about...
I think I'll be sticking to independant labels and 2nd hand LPs
Homme petit d'homme petit, s'attend, n'avale
Funny thing about that; I fired up Safari under OS X, set the user agent to IE6Win, and then went in to the site. I think the reason they reject other browsers is that I was somehow able to bypass bits of their DRM and listen to their tracks. However, I quickly realised there was no content I was actually interested in that they were selling, so I haven't been back since. They may have since corrected that DRM mistake, but I won't be going back until they officially support OS X.
Recently (May 12) the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage issued a report on proposed changes to the Copyright Act, whose relevant recommendation is as follows:
If you overlook the last vague line, the proposed changes to Copyright Act seem harmless to those who do not download, but those who do, may become customers of Napster et al.The Act would force ISPs to cut off access for uploaders after they have been identified by the CIRA. But the report does not specifically address the disclosure of customers' information (to the CIRA), nor does it address the download v.s. upload meme.
The vagueness of the report is replicated by media reports which further mention WIPO treaties, P2P and anti-circumvention devices, all of which are not specifically addressed in the report.The EFC has not, AFAIK, commented on the report and the Toronto member of Parliament who chaired the committee, hasn't yet responded to my inquiries (will P2P or anti-circumvention be left legal?).
While it's true that from an objective standpoint, Canada pretty much sucks despite being a freer country than the U.S., they did bring the world Rush and Neil Young.
I got burned by a music download service once and until they offer DRM free options I will NEVER buy. In the middle of a download I tripped on the power cord to my cable modem. The store claimed I had purchased even though I had half a file. I phoned and was told that I was screwed. If I goto a store and the power fails in the middle of ringing the goods in neither the store or I lose money / product once power is restored. If that happens online - foosh away goes your money. If your HDD crashes or you have a bad run of CDs trying to burn - foosh away goes your money.
They are basically offering less service and less product for more money. Why do people even bother buying? Goto a used store and buy what you want and compress it.
The word is "lose", not "loose". You "lose" the song. You do not "loose" the song.
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
And I *still* have to provide my own media? I don't think so. When is the music industry going to get a clue and start puting this stuff out at a reasonable price? I can get an entire DVD chock full of data and content, often for less than the price of a 10-song music CD.
TT
Uploading and downloading of mp3's via p2p is legal in canada, see:
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http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/itemid172
Why pay for something when it's already free? They aren't going to sell ice to this Inuit.
I'd say Apple's *music* business is a darn sight more successful than Napster's, even ignoring iPod profits.
...becaus your plan would be illegal part of the time. As far as I know there are not really restrictions on importing music and other content from Canada into the US, but Canada has restrictions on importing foreign content into Canada.
You could only get around that by buying enough Canadian-produced music in the 'states to sell back to Canadians.
And you wondered why it's so damn hard to find HBO on TV in Canada and you poor Americans are infliced with so much Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Jim Carrey etc etc ad nauseum....
Roxio Napster has two services: Napster Jukebox, which allows streaming music on demand for a monthly fee, and Napster Light, largely a clone of Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store except for s/m4p/wma/g.
If you agree with any of this, feel free to repost it in the future.
Song of the piracy apologist:
(1) I don't personally believe in copying CDs illegally-- but I think we should avoid using unkind words like "piracy" to describe those that do -- instead, we should describe it as an "infringement", much like a parking infringement.
(2) I don't believe in the record companies emotively abusing the word "theft," but I do believe in emotively abusing words like "information," "sharing," and "Copyright Enforcement Militia."
(3) I believe that piracy is driven by "overpriced CDs" even though CDs have dropped in price over the years.
(4) I believe that piracy is driven by overly long copyright duration, even though most pirated works are recent releases.
(5) I believe that illegitimately downloading music is giving the author "free advertising". I don't buy any of the music I download, of course--but lots of other people probably do.
(6) I believe that ripping off the artists is wrong. The record companies always rip off the artists. Artists support P2P, except the ones that don't (like Metallica), and they don't agree with me, hence they're greedy or their opinion doesn't count or something.
(7) I believe that selling CDs is not a business model, but giving away things for free on the internet is.
(8) I believe that artists should be compensated for their work -- preferably by someone else. I mean, they can sell concert tickets (which someone else can buy) or sell t-shirts (to someone else) or something. As long as someone else subsidises my free ride, I'm coooooool with it.
(9) I believe in capitalism but only support music business models which involve giving away the fruits of ones labor for free.
(10) I believe that copying someone elses music, and redistributing it to my 1,000,000 "best friends" on the internet is sharing. Music is made for sharing. It's my right.
(11) I believe that record companies cracking down on piracy is "greed", but a mob demanding free entertainment is not.
(12) I believe that it's not really "piracy" unless you charge money for it, because, receiving money is wrong, but taking a free ride is fine.
(13) I believe that disallowing copying and redistributing music over Napster is the same as humming my favourite song in public. Because when I hum my favourite song in public, everyone likes it so much that they run home, get out their tape recorders and once they've got a recording of it, they aren't interested in hearing the original any more.
(14) I believe that when illegal behaviour destroys a business, it's "free enterprise at work".
(15) I believe piracy is simply "free advertising." Even though that's what radio is, but with the legal permission of the copyright holder. Basically, what I really want is to be able to choose the songs I want, listen to them whenever I want, but I don't want to have to pay for it. Essentially, I want the whole thing for free with no strings attached.
(16) I believe artists "deserve their money" only in cases in which the RIAA is the bad guy. But in piracy situations, I'm fully justified in ripping them off.
What I find amusing is that the pirates seem unable or unwilling to distinguish between creative activity and brainless copying.
Since a lot of the people here are GPL/OSS advocates: the "OSS way" applied to this domain is to learn how to play an instrument. Or how to sing or whatever. Then get together with a bunch of other people who can also play music, and make some noise.
One of the unfortunate things that has happened to the OSS movement is that a lot of the loudmouth advocates for it don't understand what it's really about. They view it primarily as a means to get free stuff, and then they turn their eyes from the free stuff to the non-free stuff and think to themselves "maybe I'm entitled to get that one for free too". The noble ideals of grass roots participation in the creative
Don't forget Anne Murray. No wait. Go ahead and forget.
5 years late, way to go America Jr.!!!
At about $0.05 ($0.01/mb) per 192Kbps (OGG,MP3,WMA) or less for 128Kbps encodes per song, Allofmp3.com is still better than any of the pay-to-download music services. And also, no OS restrictions or browser restrictions, although the auto-downloader program is only available to Win32 systems. I still love being to download the songs on my Linux box and pay by Paypal. http://www.allofmp3.com Seriously, give it a try. I find it's better than using KaZaA or any other P2P system even though I have to pay a few cents per song.
Amen
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
... and i'll pimp it again.
allofmp3.com
Legal? Maybe, but most likely not. I don't care; i'll still buy the actual CD if it's a CD worth having. but here you get the music in the format you want, at the compression you want, and DRM free. No browser issues, either (as far as i can tell, i've only tried IE6 and FireFox). None of the risks of downloading what may or may not be what you want off the file-sharing services. And all for a penny a MB.
A kid is sitting at his computer, ostensibly downloading music, when a hazmat team shows up in full radiation gear, picks him up with some sort of metal implement (salad tongs?) and puts him in their big ol' van. Voiceover says something like: "When you download music, you're also downloading spyware, viruses and pornography. Want to download music legally? Head to www.puretracks.com."
FUD, plain and simple. I only got porn and *two* viruses when I downloaded my last batch of MP3s!
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
If this is useful for you, feel free to use it. If enough of us geeks send this type of message to those we support, the corporate pachiderms might eventually get it. And if one day one of those companies lets us download mp3s with a standards-compliant browser, we should recommend everyone use that service. Until then, I'm not buying Cds.
Information: "I want to be anthropomorphized"
Record Exec 1: Hi, there, you guys wanna' be in our commercials and online marketing promotions?
Band: F*%@-off you evil filth! We are totally anti-big corporation.
Exec 1: Well, we will just see about that. (motions to hired goons, goons grab the band members and hold them down) The case, Bill.
Exec 2: Yeah, here.(opens briefcase and holds for exec 1)
Band: F*%@ you, pig! Torture us if you want, we will never give in to the establishment!
Exec 1: (Takes stacks of ca$h from briefcase and begins pelting the band with them) Ha! It's only a matter of time til you break!
Exec 2: Think of what you could do with all this money. Buy cool cars and clothes! you could even move out of your parent's basements!
Exec 1: (Still raining down the Benjamins) Give yourself to the dark side...there is no escape!
Band: Okay, oh, God, just stop it. We'll do it.
Obviously, this sort of treatment is in violation of the Geneva convention.
Flash is the Herpes of the Internet.
your.opinion >
No discussion of Canadian music is complete without them. If you've never seen them live then you are missing out. Though I hear they are not a big out west.
Your CPU is not doing anything else, at least do something.
Maybe I'm out to lunch here, but has anybody thought of trying to buy tracks from Canada in the USA with an anonymous proxy that resides in the US? Get CAD tracks for less than the US counterparts...
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
Did anybody else watch their little flash movie about canada... http://napster.ca/flash.html I'm seriously pissed off, beavers biting people, hick looking guys drinking beer in almost every scene, leaf fan with stanley cup rioting, pick up truck skidding around (as if drunk, shows people drinking beer before and after) etc.. I am seriously appalled at this blatant stereo typical - hell I dont even think these are stereotypes, its just extremely messed up and I'm VERY insulted over this... meh, no way in hell they'll ever get my business...
"Stupid Songs"
When I sing songs I sing about what I know
But I don't know too much so I don't sing about nothing
I get my words from reading TV Guide
I steal all my solos from the Rolling Stones
I like stupid songs
I get my insight from watching Spiderman
I learned a lot from Peter Parker about dealing with the world
I pull my wire to the 20 Minute Workout
I sure wish the guys in the band looked like that
I like stupid songs
I'm sorry, Chess, but you're referring to the same case as Saucepan, and the judge did not rule that uploading is legal. He expressed that it was similar to placing a photocopying machine in a library, yes, in an allusion to a recent Supreme Court of Canada case (CCH vs. Law Society of Upper Canada) but this opinion was purely obiter dicta, meaning that it does not have binding force. This case was tossed by the judge on evidentiary merits, or the lack thereof, so no new legal precedent has been set.
At present, the law still suggests that uploading is a violation of copyright with no exemption under the Private Copying provision.
rap does suck.....blah blah blah! :D
The other day I was in Radio Shack, and this ten year old was buying a prepaid Napster card for himself! I did ask him "do you lik ethe service" and he said "yeah" - but I didn't get up the nerve to ask him why he used Napster over other services as I hate to belittle ten-year-olds for lapses in judgement.
So, they have at least one user who spent $20 there.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Beside each song listing there are a few small icons. These icons indicate how you can use the song file once it is downloaded.
To get more information on usage restrictions for each track, click on the associated icon. A window will appear with information on exactly how you are permitted to use the file once it is downloaded.
Listen:
You can listen to your music downloads as many times as you like from the computer that holds the purchased license.
Burn:
You can burn your music downloads to CD 3 times.
Burn:
You can burn your music downloads an unlimited number of times.
Transfer:
You can transfer your music downloads an unlimited number of times to 3 separate portable devices
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So... it would seem you're totally wrong. Sure, not all files can be burt, but a) Those files are clearly labeled on the site before you pay, b) It does not cost money to burn such files ( WMP does not even support this, have no clue where you came up with this nonsense ), and c) You can't "uprgade" a non-burn allowed file by paying extra money.
In all fairness, I do believe he's doing donuts in a parking lot, not nessicarily drunk... more pure redneck than anything.
But that's not much help, it's a pretty insulting intro!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
There's no such currency as "CDN". The Canadian Dollar is "CAD".
What is the hold up with iTMS? Is the industry in Canada deliberately favoring WMA based services and locking out iTMS? It would seem so.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
The guy is not drunk, he is a loser doing parking lot doughnuts in the winter, but still...
That intro is seriously whack.
If you're an American and thinking "what's the big deal", imagine a similar intro on napster.com where they had a bunch of drunk KKK members dancing around a fire, a bald eagle attacking school children, and a prostitute using the American Flag as toilet paper, all while palying a song "I am proud to be an American", and you'd see where we're coming from...
This is the second time I've seen this in two days. Google for "Song of the piracy apologist" on slashdot and you'll be amazed. Moderators: please mod this back down.
Little Bricklets
OK, so it's been decided in a Canadian court that downloading is legal but uploading is not. Why would anyone use an overpriced service such as Napster Canada when allofmp3.com out of Russia will provide same tracks (with significantly more format options) for roughly 1/30th of the cost?
There is of course the issue of copyright and the status of tracks purchased from Russia but these have not been the basis of a legal case as of yet nor are they likely to be until they represent a sufficiently large bleeding wound in the side of the RIAA and their Canadian counterparts.
I personally spend about 30 bucks a month on allofmp3.com and consider my music downloading level to be approaching saturation (i.e. I download more tracks than I can listen to). Why don't the major labels realize that getting 30 bucks out of me a month for music is an incredible feat. I will not buy 2 CD's a month, I will not pay $.99 for an MP3, but I will pay 30 dollars in a month to have complete control over the music I listen to. By pricing tracks in this fashion, the industry drives users to piracy.
Besides, it's really nice to be able to download Metallica and Beatles tracks...
Yet another reason why Magnatune might be worth looking at again. Magnatune has greatly increased its selection since it started up (e.g. it actually has some music I like now), so if you haven't taken a look in the last few months, you might want to look at it again.
eMusic gives you tracks for 22 cents each - Lame VBR encoded MP3s - and of course there's no copy protection. And they have great independent labels like Matador, Kill Rock Stars, 5 Rue Christine, Thrill Jockey, Mille Plateaux, Schematic, etc. plus a shitload of jazz and classical. I have the 90 songs a month for 20 bucks deal - you can buy more if your downloads run out before the month is up.
I refuse to buy into this dollar a song for inferior closed formats with DRM deal. eMusic may not be perfect but it's the closest thing going.
eMusic
1.19 canadian = 0.46 GBP...why then is a track on Naptser UK almost 3 times the price? Would you people pay 2.95 canadian dollars per track?! Napster is turning out to be the biggest ripoff on the net.
Canadian Animation
Wow!
How can iTunes ever hope to compete with the likes of that?
>albums at CDN$9.95 I get full album cd's at local pawn shops for $2.50-4 CDN.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Except he doesn't have to pay for the majority of his health-care. And he doesn't have the DMCA. And smoking pot isn't a felony. Nor does he have Bush/Ashcroft/Rumsfeld, and NONE of his $54 000 CDN is going to support the War in Iraq.
until they offer DRM free options I will NEVER buy.
You can buy files in MP3, Ogg Vorbis, or select other formats from this site run from Russia. The downloads are licensed through a music rights organization and contain no digital restrictions management encoding.
No, I don't work for
allofmp3.com - where music downloads YOU!
and downloading is "legal" here because the Canadian equivalent of the RIAA convinced the (useless corrupt trough-feeding) government to put taxes on blank CDR's, DVDR's, and mini hard drives such as those used in the iPod, etc. These taxes are supposedly used to compensate the artists who are ripped off by us pirating their music. So, because they're being compensated for the piracy through the tax system, the piracy is now "legal". The more people dependent on the government tit, the more people that will vote for the party that supplied that tit. That's why Canadian Parliament is dominated by tits!
Thursday night on PBS's Frontline: "The Way the Music Died. How the recording industry is threatened by Internet piracy and corporate greed".
Why would I pay 'Full' (or even a fraction of the) price for an audio file recorded at 128bit while CD quality is 168bit? WHY? WHY? WHY?
There are two separate rulings (although only one was by a judge). Whether both of the rulings stand is still to be determined.
In December 2003, the Copyright Board of Canada issued a decision stating that downloading copyrighted music from peer-to-peer networks is legal. This is not a court decision and not surprisingly, the Canadian Recording Industry Association disputes the decision. The board also noted that it believed uploading copyrighted works online appeared to be prohibited by law.
Fast forward to April 2004. The CRIA is in court trying to force major Canadian Internet service providers to divulge the names of suspected copyright violators. Not only did federal judge Konrad von Finckenstein deny the request but went on to rule that placing copyrighted works in a shared directory is legal, akin to the photocopiers mentioned above. The CRIA does not agree with Finckenstein and has appealed his ruling.
To buy his argument you have to believe that placing a copyrighted work in shared directory doesn't amount to distribution. "Before it constitutes distribution, there must be a positive act by the owner of the shared directory, such as sending out the copies or advertising that they are available for copying," Finckenstein wrote.
In response to the ruling, Helene Scherrer, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, has promised to fix copyright law as quickly as possible. This may also push the government to ratify the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaties. According to the Canadian Coalition for Fair Digital Access, ratifying the treaties may double the levies already imposed on blank digital media.
oh thank you itunes thats so kind of you to allow me to do that (5 times) with something i owen.
You may burn an entire playlist only n times in a row. You can put individual purchased tracks on other playlists and burn them, even if you have burned a particular playlist to the max.