arstechnica.com— An attempt to push through significant levies on digital music players (up to CAN$75 per device) has been quashed by Canada's Federal Court of Appeal. Innovators and consumers rejoice.
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Personally I like the idea of paying a $5 flat tax on my internet to download as much music as I want. Maybe its because I enjoy paying tax for as much health care as I want, or auto insurance etc.SK represent.
That would be why they lost this case so fast. The decision came down in less than 24 hours and the reasons given for the decision are only six paragraphs long.
@ SpeeedI see you were right. I stand corrected.I was running off the levy/legalizing argument which I'd heard before. Thanks for the link. What I find interesting is that there doesn't appear to be anything in it about the levy so if you abolished the levy the decision would still hold.Interesting... I wonder if the same would apply to video. It stands to reason, but law need not necessarily be reasonable.
@someone173406I am Canadian. With all due respect to Speed, who proved me wrong on another thread here, he is referencing the "CRIA of America" comment and then implying that old chestnut about giving up sovereignty to Americans. Even if Harper's driving down to the states to get orders from the CIA tattooed on his body, it's irrelevant to a discussion on the iPod tax.In any case, the iPod tax predates the Harper government. It's a music industry thing that they're quite willing to have Liberal or Conservative governments implement. They're not idiots and they play both sides of the political fence.If you want to play the fool and try to make it a partisan issue go right ahead, but don't think that you're accomplishing anything.The way to get rid of things like this is to actually write to your MP of any party and say why they're a bad idea. And in an election ask the candidates what their view is. Get them on record saying they're for or against things like this. Call them on it if they give meaningless answers. But don't be the tool who wants to pretend that if you can only get rid of Stephen Harper all will be well.Have you written to your MP about the upcoming copyright legislation yet?
ahhellJan 14, 2008
HAHAHA. f**k you, you money grubbing f**ks.
mapezJan 14, 2008
Personally I like the idea of paying a $5 flat tax on my internet to download as much music as I want. Maybe its because I enjoy paying tax for as much health care as I want, or auto insurance etc.SK represent.
issacharJan 15, 2008
That would be why they lost this case so fast. The decision came down in less than 24 hours and the reasons given for the decision are only six paragraphs long.
speedJan 15, 2008
"merely downloading and making music files available on one's hard drive does not infringe copyright under current Canadian law."<a class="user" href="http://www.cippic.ca/file-sharing-lawsuits/">http://www.cippic.ca/file-sharing-lawsuits/</a>I do believe that I was right.
Closed AccountJan 16, 2008
It's relevant if you're canadian.
issacharJan 16, 2008
@ SpeeedI see you were right. I stand corrected.I was running off the levy/legalizing argument which I'd heard before. Thanks for the link. What I find interesting is that there doesn't appear to be anything in it about the levy so if you abolished the levy the decision would still hold.Interesting... I wonder if the same would apply to video. It stands to reason, but law need not necessarily be reasonable.
issacharJan 16, 2008
@someone173406I am Canadian. With all due respect to Speed, who proved me wrong on another thread here, he is referencing the "CRIA of America" comment and then implying that old chestnut about giving up sovereignty to Americans. Even if Harper's driving down to the states to get orders from the CIA tattooed on his body, it's irrelevant to a discussion on the iPod tax.In any case, the iPod tax predates the Harper government. It's a music industry thing that they're quite willing to have Liberal or Conservative governments implement. They're not idiots and they play both sides of the political fence.If you want to play the fool and try to make it a partisan issue go right ahead, but don't think that you're accomplishing anything.The way to get rid of things like this is to actually write to your MP of any party and say why they're a bad idea. And in an election ask the candidates what their view is. Get them on record saying they're for or against things like this. Call them on it if they give meaningless answers. But don't be the tool who wants to pretend that if you can only get rid of Stephen Harper all will be well.Have you written to your MP about the upcoming copyright legislation yet?