True About Canada?

[peat moss]

Wonder if the greedy pricks , will take the user tax off blank media now ? Seeing as how the RIAA, made " Billions " off this sin tax from Canadians.

[HeavyMetalParkingLot]

They say it will take effect in like june? So yall in the USA how do you deal with it? do you keep downloading anyways?

Seeing as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has stated that 55% of p2p sharers are from the U.S., I would say it is safe that we just keep on sharing.

[matt526]

[rant]

I can't see the new laws being passed any time soon SideSwiped - they'll be tied up in red tape a lot longer than spring....
.... I also download much of what I already have on vinyl, cassette or VHS, for better quality recordings of what I already own.

EDIT: BTW - it is currently legal to download.

[/rant]

WELL SAID NikkiD!

[DoktaLuv]

Well, y'know, making something illegal generally only increases its usage... Shame to hear about the music illegality with our fine northern friends, though. Perhaps you'll just have to proxy?

[mlmm]

Yeah its true, but I think they are talking about changing the laws now, but if they do that they would probably have to remove the tax we pay for cdrs, etc...

yup, i just read about the proposed changes to the law. such a shame

[Blaidd]

Do you have any sources that reference this?

Blaidd

[thedazman]

isn't it illegal already? Unless you already have the original?

But what they gonna do, arrest every tom dick and harry who downloads something? I cant see it making any difference if its illegal or not, people will still do it, and come up with other ways of exploiting any system that they come up with.


Power to the downloaders !!

[cow_dung]

where did you get that info?

[Mullyman]

No such legislation has been passed yet...it is perfectly legal to download...the CRIA is attempting to persuade the Canadian Government to make it illegal but no time frame has been set a side as of yet...any news you hear about a bill being passed or a set deadline when it will become illegal is totally false at this time

[Skiz]

Unless you're actually backing-up music that you already have... , it's already illegal.