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Because I can go to the local discount computer store and get 50 CDs for $12. That works out to $0.24 for each CD. The Canadian copyright board states that they levy on CDRs is supposed to be $0.21 per CD ($0.77 for CDR-Audio). I find it highly unlikely that the levy is being charged, and that I'm only paying $0.03 per CD including retail markup, transportation, manufacturing, and all the other costs of delivering CDRs to the end user.
That store is doing one of two things. They're not paying the levy or they're selling CDRs at a loss to get you into the store to buy other things that they will make a profit on.
can't imagine WHY that might work in toronoto, and not for the NSA
Did you look at the summer temperatures for both cities? They're about the same. The reason this works for Toronto is that Lake Ontario is pretty damned deep as well as big. I don't know if there are any lakes deep enough near Baltimore for this type of cooling to work.
For example, why do we define an international mile to be 0.9144 metres, rather than the original 1000 double paces of a Roman legionary? Well, it's pretty hard to find a properly calibrated legionary these days.
It's not hard to find one. The hard part is getting him to march 1000 double paces.
Don't the Canadians have to pay a "piracy" tax on every blank dvd they buy? So doesn't that entitle them to import pirated copies?
Nope. The "Private Copying Levy" isn't on DVDs. It's only on media used primarily for music such as cassettes and CDRs (that's the intention at least). Private copying also only applies to music.
I think you are bending the meaning of "in their right mind" a bit don't you think? It would be hard to say anybody who is locking their music collection into proprietary formats which are not compatible with eachother for no reason other than it being the default to be in their right mind. In the case of windows media player, using only devices which licensed WMA, and in the case of iTunes, using only iPods are possible when ripping using the default method. In other words, if you go to the store and buy one device, then the other, your entire music collection isn't compatible with either when using the default ripping method.
I know that and you know that, but Joe Blow doesn't know that. Joe Blow just knows that he can get his CDs onto his computer by opening up Windows Media Player or iTunes and putting the CD in.
Nobody in their right mind would use AAC or WMA for non-encrpyted files, so why would that be the only fair comparrison?
Sure they would. AAC is the default in iTunes and WMA is the default in Windows Media Player. What percentage would you suppose buys an iPod, installs the software from the CD it comes with, and uses the defaults to rip their CD collection? Same thing with the players that support WMA. Lots of people will rip their CD collection with WMP because it's the default and they don't know any better.
she was riding a bike without a licence and on top of that she ran a stop sign ???
A license for riding a bike?
Sure, you shouldn't run a stop sign on a bike, but what's a reasonable punishment for that offense? A warning or possibly a fine in my opinion. Certainly not confiscation of the bike and being locked up for 18 hours.
Toronto is at least 3 hours drive away from Detroit -- and this is at 100kph/65mph -- you know, the entire length of Lake Eerie.
You'd have to be going a lot faster than 100km/h to make Toronto to Detroit in 3 hours. Depending on where you start in Toronto, it's easily two hours to London and another two hours to Windsor.
I was thinking that the tax was like a dollar a disk.
21 cents per disc. So $10.50 for 50. A store's margin on CDR sales is quite low at $15 for 50. Futureshop's (owned by Best Buy) regular price is more like $30 for 50.
Given how little Canadians get for their money (the private copying right doesn't cover copying CDs to Apple iPods)
I've seen Michael Geist say this before but I can't seem to find any reason in the law that this isn't allowed. An iPod is an "audio recording medium", isn't it? Of course, I'm not a lawyer and he is so there's probably something subtle I'm missing.
Sigh. I have never illegally downloaded music. 9 out of 10 CD-Rs I use are for data backup, and occasionally I do make a fair-use copy of a CD I bought.
Assuming you're in Canada, the only way you can illegally download music is if it's not for personal use.
Until the private copying law came into effect, you couldn't make a fair-use copy of a CD you bought because Canadian law doesn't include the concept of Fair Use. It does include a more limited concept of Fair Dealing.
As I recall, the private copying law was lobbied for by the Canadian music industry (they wanted the levy that's collected). In compensation for that levy, Canadians were granted the right to copy music for personal use. The industry liked it because they were getting paid for something Canadians were doing anyway (taping music off the radio, making copies for their friends). It was something that would cost too much to enforce anyway. Now they want to have their cake and eat it too.
This article is on crack. Maybe if the authour was actually a Canadaian he'd know WTF he was talking about.
Geist is Canadian. And your link to Futureshop goes to the exact same 200 CD deal he mentions.
See above links. You can get 200 blank CDs for 40 bucks anywhere. And when they are on sale you can routinely get them for less, like 20 or 25.
So that means either this guy doesn't know WTF he is tlaking about RE the actual cost of the levy, or all these stores are selling CDs at a loss constantly.
Neither of the links you posted works out to 200 blanks for $40. The first is 200 for $60. The second is 100 (plus a 96CD case) for $30. That works out to $60 for 200. The cheapest CD-Rs I can find on ncix.com is 50 for $12.75. That works out to 200 for $51.
Yes, every once a while a store will have CD-Rs for less than the cost of the levy. That means they either aren't paying the levy or they're using it as a loss leader. A loss leader is a product sold at less than cost to get you to come to the store (or website) and buy something else while you're there.
I have one question for the people in Canada. If you live close to the US border don't you just buy your CDRs in the states?
You certainly can. And as long as you're not selling the CDRs to others, you don't have to pay the levy. Unless you live on a border town/city, it's not really worth it. 50 packs of generic CD-Rs are commonly available for about $15. It would take quite a bit to make it worth the trip.
I am a Canadian so technically through this tax I am allowed to burn music CD's all I want to. Now since these CD's are my property I am free to sell them to whomever wants them.
Uh...no. You can copy music, but only for personal use. That means you can't sell the copies or use them as a DJ.
The dancing mission in GTA-SA gives me the shits. Anyone got any hints for getting past this using a PC with a Joystick?
Turn all the graphics down to minimum. For some reason, the arrows that tell you what direction to hit and when seem to be badly out of sync. Lowering the graphics settings seems to help somewhat.
Having someone stamp your ballot means someone else has seen your ballot, and in the US votes are supposed to be anonymous
A piece of paper has two sides. On one side of the ballot, you have the options. On the other side, you have the spot where the stamp should go. After marking your choice on the ballot, you fold the ballot so that the person stamping the ballots cannot see where you marked. You can watch that person while they stamp the ballot and if they open it up to take a peek, you can call out "Shenanigans!"
Showing rejected story list may be nice. I trully doubt only one user posted that story. If it's true that he was the only one to catch it then if people knew it they might be more ok with it.
Have people pay $5/month to be able to see the submission queue as it comes in. Call it "TotalSlashdot".
I had wondered as a kid why CTV suddenly stopped showing Bab 5. It used to be on right before Star Trek TNG on my CKCK TV station, then poof it was gone, or moved to Saturday afternoon.
For quite a while, the regular time slot for my local station had it at 5pm on Saturdays. One week I turned on the TV and tuned to the same station to watch it and this show I'd never seen was on. They had replaced Babylon 5 with Homeboys in Outer Space.
I don't think the above is true... it's NOT "perfectly functional" to simply image copy a protected DVD to another DVD, because protected DVDs have keys hidden on them in areas that normal DVD readers don't access. Only settop boxes access these areas where the keys are stored, and must be manufactured to be capable of this only by dint of being licensed to do so.
If normal DVD readers don't access those areas of the DVD, how is a software player like PowerDVD or WinDVD determining the key to decrypt the video for playing?
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Because I can go to the local discount computer store and get 50 CDs for $12. That works out to $0.24 for each CD. The Canadian copyright board states that they levy on CDRs is supposed to be $0.21 per CD ($0.77 for CDR-Audio). I find it highly unlikely that the levy is being charged, and that I'm only paying $0.03 per CD including retail markup, transportation, manufacturing, and all the other costs of delivering CDRs to the end user.
That store is doing one of two things. They're not paying the levy or they're selling CDRs at a loss to get you into the store to buy other things that they will make a profit on.
My 4 roommates and I have that exact program. There's only so much one can download in a month. We've never hit that limit, even when we try to.
You're not trying hard enough.
But he'd get along with the Orii...
Hallowed are the Ori.
can't imagine WHY that might work in toronoto, and not for the NSA
Did you look at the summer temperatures for both cities? They're about the same. The reason this works for Toronto is that Lake Ontario is pretty damned deep as well as big. I don't know if there are any lakes deep enough near Baltimore for this type of cooling to work.
For example, why do we define an international mile to be 0.9144 metres, rather than the original 1000 double paces of a Roman legionary? Well, it's pretty hard to find a properly calibrated legionary these days.
It's not hard to find one. The hard part is getting him to march 1000 double paces.
Don't the Canadians have to pay a "piracy" tax on every blank dvd they buy? So doesn't that entitle them to import pirated copies?
Nope. The "Private Copying Levy" isn't on DVDs. It's only on media used primarily for music such as cassettes and CDRs (that's the intention at least). Private copying also only applies to music.
I think you are bending the meaning of "in their right mind" a bit don't you think? It would be hard to say anybody who is locking their music collection into proprietary formats which are not compatible with eachother for no reason other than it being the default to be in their right mind. In the case of windows media player, using only devices which licensed WMA, and in the case of iTunes, using only iPods are possible when ripping using the default method. In other words, if you go to the store and buy one device, then the other, your entire music collection isn't compatible with either when using the default ripping method.
I know that and you know that, but Joe Blow doesn't know that. Joe Blow just knows that he can get his CDs onto his computer by opening up Windows Media Player or iTunes and putting the CD in.
Nobody in their right mind would use AAC or WMA for non-encrpyted files, so why would that be the only fair comparrison?
Sure they would. AAC is the default in iTunes and WMA is the default in Windows Media Player. What percentage would you suppose buys an iPod, installs the software from the CD it comes with, and uses the defaults to rip their CD collection? Same thing with the players that support WMA. Lots of people will rip their CD collection with WMP because it's the default and they don't know any better.
she was riding a bike without a licence and on top of that she ran a stop sign ???
A license for riding a bike?
Sure, you shouldn't run a stop sign on a bike, but what's a reasonable punishment for that offense? A warning or possibly a fine in my opinion. Certainly not confiscation of the bike and being locked up for 18 hours.
Toronto is at least 3 hours drive away from Detroit -- and this is at 100kph/65mph -- you know, the entire length of Lake Eerie.
You'd have to be going a lot faster than 100km/h to make Toronto to Detroit in 3 hours. Depending on where you start in Toronto, it's easily two hours to London and another two hours to Windsor.
But if you insist, it could be the RCMP.
The article mentions he's in Quebec. They have their own provincial police force.
I was thinking that the tax was like a dollar a disk.
21 cents per disc. So $10.50 for 50. A store's margin on CDR sales is quite low at $15 for 50. Futureshop's (owned by Best Buy) regular price is more like $30 for 50.
Given how little Canadians get for their money (the private copying right doesn't cover copying CDs to Apple iPods)
I've seen Michael Geist say this before but I can't seem to find any reason in the law that this isn't allowed. An iPod is an "audio recording medium", isn't it? Of course, I'm not a lawyer and he is so there's probably something subtle I'm missing.
Sigh. I have never illegally downloaded music. 9 out of 10 CD-Rs I use are for data backup, and occasionally I do make a fair-use copy of a CD I bought.
Assuming you're in Canada, the only way you can illegally download music is if it's not for personal use.
Until the private copying law came into effect, you couldn't make a fair-use copy of a CD you bought because Canadian law doesn't include the concept of Fair Use. It does include a more limited concept of Fair Dealing.
As I recall, the private copying law was lobbied for by the Canadian music industry (they wanted the levy that's collected). In compensation for that levy, Canadians were granted the right to copy music for personal use. The industry liked it because they were getting paid for something Canadians were doing anyway (taping music off the radio, making copies for their friends). It was something that would cost too much to enforce anyway. Now they want to have their cake and eat it too.
Umm... [futureshop.ca] excuse [ncix.com] me
This article is on crack. Maybe if the authour was actually a Canadaian he'd know WTF he was talking about.
Geist is Canadian. And your link to Futureshop goes to the exact same 200 CD deal he mentions.
See above links. You can get 200 blank CDs for 40 bucks anywhere. And when they are on sale you can routinely get them for less, like 20 or 25.
So that means either this guy doesn't know WTF he is tlaking about RE the actual cost of the levy, or all these stores are selling CDs at a loss constantly.
Neither of the links you posted works out to 200 blanks for $40. The first is 200 for $60. The second is 100 (plus a 96CD case) for $30. That works out to $60 for 200. The cheapest CD-Rs I can find on ncix.com is 50 for $12.75. That works out to 200 for $51.
Yes, every once a while a store will have CD-Rs for less than the cost of the levy. That means they either aren't paying the levy or they're using it as a loss leader. A loss leader is a product sold at less than cost to get you to come to the store (or website) and buy something else while you're there.
I have one question for the people in Canada. If you live close to the US border don't you just buy your CDRs in the states?
You certainly can. And as long as you're not selling the CDRs to others, you don't have to pay the levy. Unless you live on a border town/city, it's not really worth it. 50 packs of generic CD-Rs are commonly available for about $15. It would take quite a bit to make it worth the trip.
I am a Canadian so technically through this tax I am allowed to burn music CD's all I want to. Now since these CD's are my property I am free to sell them to whomever wants them.
Uh...no. You can copy music, but only for personal use. That means you can't sell the copies or use them as a DJ.
This is why the only thing (other than Chuck Norris) that a lightsaber can't cut through is another lightsaber.
What about cortosis?
The dancing mission in GTA-SA gives me the shits. Anyone got any hints for getting past this using a PC with a Joystick?
Turn all the graphics down to minimum. For some reason, the arrows that tell you what direction to hit and when seem to be badly out of sync. Lowering the graphics settings seems to help somewhat.
Having someone stamp your ballot means someone else has seen your ballot, and in the US votes are supposed to be anonymous
A piece of paper has two sides. On one side of the ballot, you have the options. On the other side, you have the spot where the stamp should go. After marking your choice on the ballot, you fold the ballot so that the person stamping the ballots cannot see where you marked. You can watch that person while they stamp the ballot and if they open it up to take a peek, you can call out "Shenanigans!"
You are completely missing the point. Real diamonds taste much better than synthetic ones...
Well of course they do. Synthetic diamonds don't have the blood of young Africans on them. That's where the real flavour comes from.
Showing rejected story list may be nice. I trully doubt only one user posted that story. If it's true that he was the only one to catch it then if people knew it they might be more ok with it.
Have people pay $5/month to be able to see the submission queue as it comes in. Call it "TotalSlashdot".
How did Aslan become king?
His Father is the Emperor over the sea and always has been. It's a bit like asking who put God in charge of everything.
Well I didn't vote for 'im.
I had wondered as a kid why CTV suddenly stopped showing Bab 5. It used to be on right before Star Trek TNG on my CKCK TV station, then poof it was gone, or moved to Saturday afternoon.
For quite a while, the regular time slot for my local station had it at 5pm on Saturdays. One week I turned on the TV and tuned to the same station to watch it and this show I'd never seen was on. They had replaced Babylon 5 with Homeboys in Outer Space.
I don't think the above is true... it's NOT "perfectly functional" to simply image copy a protected DVD to another DVD, because protected DVDs have keys hidden on them in areas that normal DVD readers don't access. Only settop boxes access these areas where the keys are stored, and must be manufactured to be capable of this only by dint of being licensed to do so.
If normal DVD readers don't access those areas of the DVD, how is a software player like PowerDVD or WinDVD determining the key to decrypt the video for playing?