Please... let me keep some of my money?!? For heaven's sakes, you drain me enough already!
Who would bother recording material from some unknown starving artist. Alanis Morrisette, RUSH, Bryan Adams, etc... Fuck off already. You get enough of our damn money from Concerts, T-shirts, and tape sales. Do you really need another $10 million when you have $200 million already. Enough already.
To the already over-paid artists who will benifit from this, I say: Try pumping gas for a living so that you can feed your family. Then tell me that you believe it is ethical to charge an additional tax on blank media.
The tax presupposes all blank media purchases are made in bad faith with the intention of copying copywritten material.
I say, fine, charge me the tax, but make the distribution of pirated material legal.
Let's not forget that Canada has accepted the Internet as a free market all together. It amazes me how many governments constantly struggle to find new ways to re-inforce their presence and re-assert their power. I believe this instability, stemming from the top of the polical tree, reflects a deeper unrest stirring in the roots of a country's people.
I fail to see how gun-totting children and a big-brother's watching government puts the civil back in civilization.
Writting from Toronto, Ontario, I try to assure myself that I am far away from this collection of narcisism and neurocy. Still, I am inevitably effected by the pushy arrogance of those beneath me (no pun intended). Canada, and the rest of the world for that matter, is continually influenced by the USA through it's media dominance. I don't see this a bad thing; we should be open to other cultures and other ideas.
With Ontario's current stance on cryptography, I just hope our all-powerful neighbor is not so self-promoting as to ignore the influence of those around her.
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Please... let me keep some of my money?!? For heaven's sakes, you drain me enough already!
Who would bother recording material from some unknown starving artist. Alanis Morrisette, RUSH, Bryan Adams, etc... Fuck off already. You get enough of our damn money from Concerts, T-shirts, and tape sales. Do you really need another $10 million when you have $200 million already. Enough already.
To the already over-paid artists who will benifit from this, I say: Try pumping gas for a living so that you can feed your family. Then tell me that you believe it is ethical to charge an additional tax on blank media.
The tax presupposes all blank media purchases are made in bad faith with the intention of copying copywritten material.
I say, fine, charge me the tax, but make the distribution of pirated material legal.
Let's not forget that Canada has accepted the Internet as a free market all together. It amazes me how many governments constantly struggle to find new ways to re-inforce their presence and re-assert their power. I believe this instability, stemming from the top of the polical tree, reflects a deeper unrest stirring in the roots of a country's people.
I fail to see how gun-totting children and a big-brother's watching government puts the civil back in civilization.
Writting from Toronto, Ontario, I try to assure myself that I am far away from this collection of narcisism and neurocy. Still, I am inevitably effected by the pushy arrogance of those beneath me (no pun intended). Canada, and the rest of the world for that matter, is continually influenced by the USA through it's media dominance. I don't see this a bad thing; we should be open to other cultures and other ideas.
With Ontario's current stance on cryptography, I just hope our all-powerful neighbor is not so self-promoting as to ignore the influence of those around her.