This may already have been mentioned, but unlike the States, Canada already has a tax on all recordable media.
Long before Napster, the Canadian organization that handles royalties for musicians, SOCAN and the CRIA, lobbied for and succeeded in getting bill C-32, passed into law. I don't recall the year, but we Canadian's have been paying about $2.50 in tax on every 74 minute recordable CD to support musicians, regardless of whether we use those CDs to play mp3s on our DVD players or to copy software or whatever.
Perhaps, the judge in this case felt that we were already doing our share for musicians.
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This may already have been mentioned, but unlike the States, Canada already has a tax on all recordable media. Long before Napster, the Canadian organization that handles royalties for musicians, SOCAN and the CRIA, lobbied for and succeeded in getting bill C-32, passed into law. I don't recall the year, but we Canadian's have been paying about $2.50 in tax on every 74 minute recordable CD to support musicians, regardless of whether we use those CDs to play mp3s on our DVD players or to copy software or whatever. Perhaps, the judge in this case felt that we were already doing our share for musicians.