Posted on 12/01/2006 12:03:24 PM PST by Centurion2000
Actually the CDR levy in Canada is a good thing imo - it amounted to pennies per blank disc but by actually LOBBYING for it themselves the music labels torpedoed any claims they might make that Canadian P2P file sharers were "stealing" copyrighted music as RIAA claims Amewrican P2P sharers do in the US since here the music labels were ALREADY being "compensated" for 'unauthorized copying' IN EXACTLY THE WAY THEY ASKED FOR - in effect they 'licensed' P2P file sharing here by their greed and stupidity...
DOH!
Bullcrap.
It's pre-emptively punishing buyers on the presumption they are criminals.
In principle you are right but in practice it has had the effect I mentioned...an "unintended consequence" to be sure that the labels would have never lobbied for in Parliament if they'd foreseen P2P coming precisely because they have cut their own throats for peanuts...but then if they had foresight to see P@P coming and get ahead of the curve of progress they wouldnt now be dinosaur middlemen fighting an unwinnable war that has doomed them to eventual extinction in the face of inevitable paradigm changes.
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