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Canadian Songwriters Propose Collective Licensing
aboivin writes "The Songwriters association of Canada has put forward a proposition for collective licensing of music for personal use. The Right to Equitable Remuneration for Music File Sharing would legalize sharing of a copy of a copyrighted musical work without motive of financial gain, for a monthly fee of $5.00 applied to all Canadian internet connections, which would be distributed to creators and rights holders. From the proposal: 'File sharing is both a revolution in music distribution and a very positive phenomenon. The volunteer efforts of millions of music fans creates a much greater choice of repertoire for consumers while allowing songs — both new and old, well known and obscure — to be heard. All that's needed to fulfill this revolution in distribution is a way for Creators and rights holders to be paid.'"
10 cents? d00d this is CANADIA we're talking about, it's more like 3 cents. In fact Canadian "dollars" are so worthless I've recently been making paper airplanes out of the Canadian bills I have and throwing them out a window to see how far they fly. Not very far, but I'm not that great at making paper airplanes.
I like basketball!!1!
...second-rate songwriters from a second-rate, socialist nation want to fuck up the way something is based on loony ideals - no pun intended - proven not to work.
Fuck Canada. Vote Ron Paul for President, and let's see them wiped off the goddamned map.
...now even the Canucks are turning into freakin' communist bastages. Let's just have the government take everyone's money away and spread it around equally among everybody else. Just like the freakin' Swedes do it.
Just thought about it. They can have this if I have the option to block all P2P traffic on my internet connection.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*