Canadians Burned by Blank-CD Levy

wired news ^ | 1.8.03 | Michelle Delio

[freepatriot32]

Technology not taxation!

That's the battle cry of the Canadian computer industry in a war of words being waged among groups representing the nation's music, technology and retail industries.

The dispute centers around fees collected from technology companies to reimburse the music industry for losses incurred by music copying and swapping.

[freepatriot32]

At the meeting, tech industry groups are likely to point out that the CPCC has not yet distributed a cent of the millions it has collected in fees over the years to musicians

now im no canadian lawyer but it seems to me that all of the people in charge of the money need to be arrested for theft by deception if this is the case

[OPS4]

In a FREE REPUBLIC you would be correct. In a socialist country the elite rule. Therefore the Oreilly and Hannity message of a Socialist Dictatorship vis a vi Canada
seems right on!

Ops4 God Bless America!!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh, they're just keeping it all in escrow, of couuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurse.

[Nephi]

I agree with your characterization of O'Reilly, Hannity and Coulter. I am continually amazed at the number of freepers who dog O'Reilly and Coulter because they have the huevos to actually take a stand.

Hannity, on the other hand, is a pathetic excuse for a debater - Colmes kicks his bundinghah almost nightly. Besides being a suck up, his idea of debate is a run on statement punctuated with a question mark at the end.

[Political Junkie Too]

What about when using recordable CDs to back up the contents of your hard drive or store photos from digital cameras? Isn't it arrogant to assume that all recordable CDs are for the purpose of copying music?

-PJ

[Myrddin]

I get an endless stream of MS Word and PowerPoint docs sent to me by people on various projects. I stuff them in my documents directory on the desktop machine. When I have to hit the road, I simply copy the docs directory to a CDROM and stuff it in the CD case in my laptop bag. I also have some large software projects that must be backed up on a regular basis. The precompiled header files can be massive with VC++. My digital camera pictures get backed up to CD as well. It is damn arrogant to expect me to pay bunch of musicians royalties on music I've never heard as a means of punishing my need back backup media.

[Redcloak]

Problem solved

[gitmo]

Maybe you should spend 1-2 months in prison every year on the assumption you'll probably illegally steal copyrighted music. Same logic, isn't it. Assumed guilty, even if proven innocent. A coming soon to a country nearer you.

[supercat]

In the U.S. one can buy either "data" CD's (no royalty paid) or "music" CD's (which cost three times as much because of the royalty). What does the purchase of "music" CD's allow someone to do which would be forbidden with "data" CD's?

If I buy a copyrighted item, I am allowed to make archival and other copies for my own personal use without payment to anybody; what I am generally not allowed to do is make copies for anyone else, or to transfer the item without transfering or destroying all copies thereof. Since these rights already exist without these "royalty" disks, what new rights do those confer?

Am I legally allowed to copy whatever music I feel like, from whatever source, on the sole condition that I do so on royalty-paid disks? If so, that would seem like an incredible bargain for everyone except the actual copyright holders. Since I don't think that's supposed to be the case, perhaps someone can tell me what is?

[Paleo Conservative]

In the U.S. one can buy either "data" CD's (no royalty paid) or "music" CD's (which cost three times as much because of the royalty). What does the purchase of "music" CD's allow someone to do which would be forbidden with "data" CD's?

Is there any difference in the quality? If not, data CDs work in audio CD players.