jamesmason.blogspot.com — It looks like the Canadian Government is going to ammend the Canadian Copyright Act, and make downloading off P2P networks like Kazaa and Limewire illegal.Currently downloading copyrighted material of P2P networks in legal in Canada.
Mar 29, 2005 View in Crawl 4
trepanMar 29, 2005
if you read the article, you'll find it is not the same as the title of this digg implies.Also, this is some dudes blog, not an official news story.lastly, the changes are PROPOSED changes that may or may not (likely not) make it into actual law.This is a classic piece of FUD
kylegoetzMar 30, 2005
I don't understand this. Canadians pay a tax on media which is used to compensate the Industry for copyright infringement. So, this begs the question -- shouldn't copyright infringement be legal in Canada because a tax is already paid which subsidizes said infringement?
comdakMar 30, 2005
Canada... Oh Canada, why would you do this. For the last while you have stood up against the RIAA/MPAA and made it clear that us northern-er's were not going to give up our right to download copyrighted material from the Internet.You told us that we could download as much as we wanted, as long as we didnt ourselves share. Sure we didn't follow that guideline to well, but we still appreciated your trust in us and our morals that if we like the product/song/movie enough that we would go out to pay for it.Coming from a pirates mouth, I have bought things when they deserved to be bought, for example iD Softwares Doom 3. Their were pirated copies out within minutes of the games North American release, I went out bravely and paid full price for the game. iD deserved it; most things in this world no longer deserve the amount of money, or anywhere close to it for the product/service/song/movie they offer.You even come enough to say you will be signing two WIPO's so that ISPs have to be your sniffing rats to find us P2Pers. They will be forced to give out information to a government who is only trying to make large Fortune 500 companies stop losing 0.2% of their annual sales, so the government will have more votes. This is disgusting Canada, why would you turn your backs on all the people who loved you for your fair use policies? Why would you allow yourselves to become exactly like the United States and its love for money?I for one will not stop using P2P sharing, and I know several hundred others who will not stop either. You will not beat us, just as I have told the United States on a previous post, we will win, bit torrent will win, P2P will win.You look for us, we will hide, you trace us, we will become untraceable... this is survival of the fittest, and you federal and corporate fat cats are definately NOT the fittest.
gronneMar 30, 2005
FUD.
loosecannonMar 31, 2005
We've seen it in the past that P2P was going to be dealt with in Canada and nothing came of it. I'm taking the approach that I will believe it when I see it. I recall Bell refused to release their customers' information to the CRIA or whatever they are called. An interesting connection to this story is that Rogers (a major ISP in Canada) implemented a hard bandwidth cap of 60GB/month on all their Internet accounts a few weeks ago without formally announcing it to their customers. So if these anti-P2P laws go through we won't be able to share copyrighted files, plus we will still be paying a luxury tax on blank media discs, and we will also have caps on our Internet connections for LEGAL downloads. Sounds like we could go from one extreme to the other here and be worse off than America... :(
dinesharora76Dec 20, 2005
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