Canada deems P2P downloading legal

posted by Aaron73153 on December 12, 2003 @ 12:20pm

 

In a ruling released Friday, copyright regulators in Canada said downloading copyrighted music from peer-to-peer networks appears to be legal under Canadian law but that uploading is still prohibited.

In the same decision, the Copyright Board of Canada imposed a government fee of as much as $25 on iPod-like MP3 players, putting the devices in the same category as audio tapes and blank CDs. The money collected from levies on "recording mediums" goes into a fund to pay musicians and songwriters for revenues lost from consumers' personal copying. Manufacturers are responsible for paying the fees and often pass the cost on to consumers.

 

In its decision Friday, the board decided to allow personal copies on a hard drive until a fee ruling is made specifically on that medium or until the courts or legislature tell regulators to rule otherwise.

 

Friday's decision will also impose a substantial surcharge on hard drive-based music players such as Apple Computer's iPod or the new Samsung Napster player for the first time. MP3 players with up to 10GB of memory will have an added levy of $15 added to their price, while larger players will see $25 added on top of the wholesale price.

 

MP3 players with less than 1GB of memory will have only a $2 surcharge added to their cost.

 

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They are talking about pot now u can download mp3. Im guessing because the government said its legal RIAA cant do anything in canada. Damn why can we be canadianish sometimes ;(

that sounds pretty fair to me.

 

I wouldent mind spending another 25$ on shit, to bad I get most things for free.

 

fuck canada, they should legalize heroin and crack so we have more canadies oding on it.

why can we be canadianish sometimes ;(

 

Fuck you.....that's all I g0t to say.

hmmm looks like I have to sell my old 128MB mp3 player ( you can add more, i dont have a memory card yet )

 

I'd rather buy a more expensive mp3 player over cds

zuZu']that sounds pretty fair to me.

 

I wouldent mind spending another 25$ on shit, to bad I get most things for free.

 

fuck canada, they should legalize heroin and crack so we have more canadies oding on it.

its not legal but we have 'safe injection sites' where you can come and get free needles and a room to shoot up in

also we can make 'personal use' copies of music

thers like another 5 cents added to blank discs u buy and $2-25 on any mp3 player, but its worth it to not have tow orry about being proseucted for dumb shit like possessing less than an ounce of weed or downloading a fucking song

zuZu']that sounds pretty fair to me.

 

I wouldent mind spending another 25$ on shit, to bad I get most things for free.

 

fuck canada, they should legalize heroin and crack so we have more canadies oding on it.

 

 

We're working on it. Theres lots of my fellow Canadians I wish would OD. Like Celine Dion.

We're working on it. Theres lots of my fellow Canadians I wish would OD. Like Celine Dion.

 

if you would hit that ill bet you would fuck avril, sick mother fucker

What about MD players? O.o

stupid ice niggers brain is in the clouds all the time from smokin that gonja

 

Canada is OK... but its not america

Oklahoma is OK... but its not Texas

I hate god damned canada. Who cares if those ass lips think that p2p is legal up there? I'm no fucking n00b piece of shit. I dont sit around all day jacking off to MILF hunter videos I get of kazaa while trying to get a copy of photoshop. I also hate Canada because I mailed a server to this assclown up there and UPS dropped the box on Canadian ground, then the ass wanted his money back only he was to big of a lazy shit to ever mail the damn thing back to me.

 

The only cool thing they do in Canada is club seals, the rest is abunch of pussy shit that old people do like drinking weak ass beer and participating in the weekly curling event. I mean shit assholes, we even beat them at their own fucking game, hockey.

 

Canada sucks ball sack.

if you would hit that ill bet you would fuck avril, sick mother fucker

 

 

I said I want the bitch to OD you idiot.

 

 

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I hate god damned canada. Who cares if those ass lips think that p2p is legal up there? I'm no fucking n00b piece of shit. I dont sit around all day jacking off to MILF hunter videos I get of kazaa while trying to get a copy of photoshop. I also hate Canada because I mailed a server to this assclown up there and UPS dropped the box on Canadian ground, then the ass wanted his money back only he was to big of a lazy shit to ever mail the damn thing back to me.

 

The only cool thing they do in Canada is club seals, the rest is abunch of pussy shit that old people do like drinking weak ass beer and participating in the weekly curling event. I mean shit assholes, we even beat them at their own fucking game, hockey.

 

Canada sucks ball sack.

 

 

And you you fucking idiot who the fuck won the Olympic Gold in hockey last year?? And weak beer? Fuck your regular beer has as much alcohol as our LIGHT shit. Fuck wake up and smell the fucking coffee idiot.

 

 

 

And yes I r raged.

Big whoop, so you won it in 2002. I was talking about the big daddy, the Stanly cup you half assed hershey squirt. If you actually played hockey, you'd know that the Stanly cup is way cooler than the Olympics because it is almost as big as my wang, which is why they made the competition in the first place because a possy of canadian farts saw my schlong flappin in the wind.

 

 

Any kind of beer if for pussies, real men drink brandy and whisky until they end up in the hospital. If you don't, you might aswell live in Canada because you have a twat for a face.

 

 

Wake up and smell your cunt, puss cake.

Big whoop, so you won it in 2002. I was talking about the big daddy, the Stanly cup you half assed hershey squirt. If you actually played hockey, you'd know that the Stanly cup is way cooler than the Olympics because it is almost as big as my wang, which is why they made the competition in the first place because a possy of canadian farts saw my schlong flappin in the wind.

 

 

Any kind of beer if for pussies, real men drink brandy and whisky until they end up in the hospital. If you don't, you might aswell live in Canada because you have a twat for a face.

 

 

Wake up and smell your cunt, puss cake.

 

Well why the fuck don't you look at the rosters of the teams that have won the Cup over the last few years and see how many of their players are CANADIANS, fucktwad.

Canadians do and have done all kinds of fucking shit you people probably never heard of, so shut the fuck up already.

hello again Von Doitch...back for another spanking?

/me raises hand

lets move to canada!

Just posted all over news yesterday, Canadian gov't will be following USA in their footsteps. Click if you give 3 shits

 

:rolleyes2

 

So I suppose sit back for 1 month, and let five 12 year old children get sued for outragous amounts of money. When that has made enough of a public spectacle, the money owed will be traded in for a simple public apology. After this, continue d/l'ing

Most of you ignorant fucks have never been to canada yet you insult it like you know everything there is to know.

 

STFU niggers.

We need to go into an outhouse to figure out that a closed box over an open hole in the ground filled with fecal matter stinks?

 

 

Don't gotta go to CAN to know it's better in the US...just look at reports on average income, buying power of that income, tax rates, and difference in cost of your products compared to ours...your dollar is worth .6 of ours, plus or minus...yet it takes more than twice as many of yours to buy the same things we buy here...that's a 20% disparity in buying power (meaning even if you set the CAN dollar exactly equal to the USD, you still pay a buck twenty in CAN for a product that costs a dollar flat, here...actual figures are 1.45CAN=1USD today, without exchange fees...loaf of HoneyWheat bread in CAN=4.20, it's under $2 in the US......so IF you exchange your $4.20 CAN, drive across the border, buy the bread here, and go back home, you still have $.40 USD (or $.60+/- CAN) in your pocket.

 

Add the fact that not only is your country running under a deficit margin that makes ours look miniscule (your external debt isn't as bad as ours, though), but your government openly admits that it's on the brink of bankruptcy.

 

Plus half your country is French...that counts as at least half a dozen points against you, right there :)