[antiRepublicrat]

Doesn’t that just sound like you’re being ripped off?

A lot of people, mainly geeks, use CDs for data and software storage, especially Linux geeks who tend to have many versions of many distros on CD. A good geek may have hundreds of CDs, not one with music on it. Yet he paid how much to the copyright cartel?

[Dr. Sivana]

Doesn’t that just sound like you’re being ripped off?

A lot of people, mainly geeks, use CDs for data and software storage, especially Linux geeks who tend to have many versions of many distros on CD. A good geek may have hundreds of CDs, not one with music on it. Yet he paid how much to the copyright cartel?

I am not Canadian, so it does not affect me. Besides the uses you mention, there are genuine archival backups of purchased CDs. On top of that, who gets the royalties? Chances are, it will be given to the guys already making the big bucks, when in fact the "pirated" music may well consist of far more obscure material. The wrong people are getting compensated.