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Canadian Music Industry Says Downloading Declining
An anonymous reader writes "A new survey conducted by a Canadian music collective that counts the recording industry as one of its members has found that music downloading has declined dramatically in Canada. The survey found that only 14 percent of Canadians download, down from 21 percent in 2002. The survey also found that P2P is rarely a reason for people who purchase less music."
"what do you think the chances are of them reducing or eliminating the blank media tax?"
My subject line is only quoting the idiots who are going to come along and say that the Canadian CD tax is not a tax, but it is actually a "levy" (which is defined, of course, as a type of tax). Maybe they will read this, and troll no more.
Where were you when the voynix came?
I know the comment was meant to be funny. But Canadians have some of the highest connectivity rates in the world. In 2003 approx 64% of households in Canada were connected.
On another note, using the same link there is a subsection on decline of Music Downloading in Canada. Since this was published in 2003, I can only say that this slashdot article is old news.
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
A Recent survey of Canadians showed that Canadians are 75% more likely to lie on an over-the-phone survey than they were 10 years ago. Studies suggest that this has to do with the common practice of entering bogus information online to protect personal privacy.
And before anyone moderates this informative, it was meant to be either funny or thought provoking :P
Damn, here is the link http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml
At least the french one has never been altered...
"O Canada" was proclaimed Canada's national anthem on July 1, 1980, 100 years after it was first sung on June 24, 1880.
The first performance took place on June 24 (St Jean Baptist Day), 1880 at a banquet in the "Pavillon des Patineurs" in Quebec City as the climax of a "Mosaique sur des airs populaires canadiens" arranged by Joseph Vezina, a prominent composer and bandmaster.
The music was composed by Calixa Lavallee, a well-known composer; French lyrics to accompany the music were written by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier. The song gained steadily in popularity. Many English versions have appeared over the years. The version on which the official English lyrics are based was written in 1908 by Mr. Justice Robert Stanley Weir. The official English version includes changes recommended in 1968 by a Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons. The French lyrics remain unaltered.
End of Line.
Sure, and when you go to court to sue or be sued and the court garners your or the other persons wages, that's collected by the government too, but I bet you'd be rather hesitant to call that a tax. The point is that what is done with the money collected is not controlled by a the government. As such I don't think it can be called a tax, despite the fact the the government 'collects' it on behalf of another party. It all goes to the private interest group and THEY decide how it is distributed, or even IF it is distributed!
Apologize for the two-post reply, had to look busy at work for few minutes.
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Court overtuns levy:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2005/07/28/ipodlevy0
Court refuses to require ISP's to turn over names:
http://www.out-law.com/page-5742
Actually, since this is about Canada, it'd be the CRIA's turf :)
I thought i'd add -- in case everyone didn't already know, that this phenomenon is pretty much responsible for the "ZOMG decline in sales!!11 Piracy!!!1"
See the decline in sales was due to people finishing their cassette-to-CD upgrade and no longer buying the huge amount of CDs they bought in the mid 90s.
I guess it'd be nice if people finish their CD-to-mp3 "up"grade and the RIAA could stop doing their chicken little act.
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
Easy. But, I bet you're not going to like it. I'm going to preface this by saying that I am not really a "hipster" or an indie type, though I know enough of them that I listen to some of the music. Frankly, I'm more into post-rock than your whiny indie pop stuff (post-rock being a near-meaningless catch-all approximately equal to "experimental rock usually with few vocals", a good chunk of which is also filed under indie rock).
Regardless, the first obvious answer to your question is Broken Social Scene's "Broken Social Scene". Frankly these guys are awesome, for me especially because they combine the actually good elements of indie pop with the instrumentation of a lot of good post-rock. Regardless, if that album doesn't do it for you (which I've listed since it was released in 2005), the even more obvious choice is "You Forgot It In People", which was probably one of the (if not the) best albums of 2002, anywhere. Some people say the 2005 album doesn't live up to it, I think that many of them reject it out of turn.
Next: The Hylozoists' "La Fin Du Monde". Awesome post-rock band that includes a couple of vibraphones, a violin, and a number of other things on top of the standard rock instrumentation. Besides being awesome live, I am listing this album and band because I think they would appeal to a larger audience than a lot of other "post-rock".
Finally, because I haven't had the time or money to get many new CDs this year, I'm gonna list three albums from the past couple of years that are basically awesome anyway:
Feist - Let it Die (awesome singer-songwriter-jazz-folk-pop-i-ness) 2004
Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet (ridiculously good jazz-influenced post-rock) 2002
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O. (over-the-top symphonic post-rock, from the band that is basically the centre of the rather influential Montreal post-rock scene) 2002
And I might as well tack on Death From Above 1979's "You're a Woman, I'm a Machine" (2004) since everyone loves ('d?) ridiculous dance-punk these days.
Frankly, people who complain about the state of Canadian music aren't listening to the right music.
We're just waiting for Bryan Adams and Celine Dion to put out new albums.
Naturally, we're all light-years behind Japan :(
Anyone can "stand up for what they believe", but it takes a very brave individual to change what they believe. - Loundry
Not true. It is a high population density that makes it easy to connect people. Canada has a high connectivity rate despite a population density of only 3.2 per km2, that is one of the lowest in the world.