If they charge a "presumed piracy fee"...
So I have a question about the proposed "piracy fee" that Canada is considering for the iPod (and other players: If you pay that up front, does it then follow that you have already been charged, and can freely share music? That came up in the comments on the linked page. Sometimes I wonder just how much the RIAA and their international arm wants to torque off customers. There doesn't seem to be a limit to the stupid...
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on this side of the pond...
[Michael Haupt] July 20, 2007 17:29:54.549
Greetings from Germany, Europe.
Guess what. If you buy a PC, you pay some Euros advance copy fee, because you might copy stuff with this device. It's already here, and it's interesting to see how some (bad?) ideas cross the ocean.
forgot to mention this
[Michael Haupt] July 20, 2007 17:32:13.601
By the way, of course you're still in trouble if you actually copy DRM-polluted stuff. But you pay the advance fee in any case, there's no way to circumvent it. Yay.
Presumed Guilty with Media Tax
[] July 20, 2007 19:37:13.731
I believe that, yes, in Canada it's ok to copy music and videos and store them since you've paid for the "right" with the Media Tax which presumes that that's what you are going to do. That's the problem for them when they turn the tables and presume that we Canadians are guilty of crimes without trial. Time to listen to some liberated music which I already paid for - yeah.
Oh, it sure seems that they are discounting themselves this way! I guess they are doing it for the greater good after all!
It's nothing new in Canada
[] July 23, 2007 11:39:09.015
Thanks to geniuses like Sheila Copps (fellow Canadians will know whom I am talking about), we've already had a lcy like this for years. Every recordable CD and DVD media is subject to it.
Welcome to the creeping tyranny of totality.