This is pure bovine defecation. Are they now going to sue public utilities? Simply because they provide one of the "building blocks" of piracy???? How about water companies while we are at it. Without water, we cannot live. If we are not alive, we cannot pirate songs, software, movies.... etc. Guess we would not be around to legally purchase their product either.

Scotty, Beam me up!! There's no intelligent life down here.

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It's retarded. And because it's retarded I'm sure they are going to get away with it. In fact the ISP will charge the customer 25% more to cover the fee and admin costs. Bang!

A pile of greedy, socialist pigs. But living in Canada we ought to get used to it. Our communist, socialist government will surely agree to this.

I doubt this will get through. It´s too far off. It´s like suing the tobacco companies because your husband died of cancer. Pure greed.

If royalties are paid then dosen`t it make it legal to download their music?

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No, I don´t think so. Artist´s rights organizations already receive an amount of money for every blank CD, DVD and MD bought. That doesn´t make it legal for us to copy music.

This is actually something I´ve been thinking about now that copy-protectection on CDs is being force-feed to us. The "tax" on the blanks is supposed to cover up for the illegal use of music. If we no longer can copy CDs we shouldn´t have to pay the tax and blank CDs would get cheaper.
The EFF should look in to this. It would natuarlly be a struggle since that would mean less money in the record labels´ treasure chest.

Where the hell does 10% of gross profits from the sale of adverts have anything to do with compensation for piracy? Someone please enlighten me.

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I don't think they get money from blank CD-Rs, are you sure?
It doesn't make sense, I can right MY songs in a blank CD why should I pay THEM?

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it depends on what CD-R /DVD+-R you buy, the ones with Audio Printed on the Cover are no different to the normal ones Accept you pay a Tax that goes to RIAA or some such organization, that's why they are more expensive it has nothing to do with quality or anything like that, they regard this as fair practice to make those of us who take CD's we have bought, and make our own compilations onto blanks pay for the privilege

At least in Finland we pay a tax-like fee called "kasettimaksu" on blanks. dRD knows more about this than I do.

In 1998 the Copyright Act in Canada was changed to allowed consumers to make copies of music works legally. The following is a quote from the Copyright Act
80. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the act of reproducing all or any substantial part of
(a) a musical work embodied in a sound recording,
(b) a performer's performance of a musical work embodied in a sound recording, or
(c) a sound recording in which a musical work, or a performer's performance of a musical work, is embodied
onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer's performance or the sound recording.
With this change came a levy (tax?) on recordable medium in 2000. The current levy on CD-Rs is 21¢ each. There is a proposal to increase the levy and to expand the mediums the levy applies to including MP3 storage. For further details see http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml.
To me the long and short of this issue in Canada I can make copies of any musical work for my personal use legally without fear of penalty.