P2p Downloading Legal In Canada

Communist_boy · December 16, 2003

I was sent this article by a friend and was wondering what you guys thought of it. Seems that we might be on the way to ticking off the Yanks once again :lol: .

Canada deems P2P downloading legal

Slavik44 · December 16, 2003

1) uploading is still illegal but i doubt that will stop anyone.

anywayz...there best bet is to go with the fee on the MP'3 player....it alows them to re-gain some lost money, with out having to go through the court rooms..where in all honesty due to this being an international occurence they will have trouble grabing people out side the U.S. They also wouldn't ahve the resources to take every single file sharer to court.....look at some of those file sharers easily one million people on at any given time.

It would be tough to take out even 10% of them, but that is not a big enough dinge to stop it or scare off more people. This especially considerign the fact it would be a waste of tiem to go after soemoen with less then 500 files...and honestly I would say (not scientific or anyhting)

98% of people have less then 500 mp3's shared, look at who they have gone after peopelw ho shared 2,000 + files....they tried to take out the big guys and scare some small guys away...but they can't scare every one away or sue every one away, and becuase Kazaa is decentralized they can't shut it down like they did napster.

what they shoudl be doing now is....

1. lower prices on their CD's

2. Continue with the fee on MP3 players

3. put a fee of 2 cents per CD-R, bought

4. Allow singers to take a larger cut from CD's..in re-turn the ocmpany gets a cut on the singers tour

5. perhaps expirementally try a pay per month download system, where songs can only be burnt to CD 10 times.

6. Stop riding the wave of pop music, the little 13 year olds don't listen to it, and the 13 year olds that did are now 18, and don't listen to it...try getting back into touch with there customers and there customers interests.

7. The U.S economy is on a down turn, when soemthign is on a down turn...it could indicate people have lower expendable income, and so less money is spent on CD's...perhaps the music industry should also work on waiting that out as well.

Communist_boy · December 16, 2003

First off this article is about Canada, not America

Slavik44 · December 16, 2003

First off this article is about Canada, not America

listen buddy....

everytime there is a oney problem wiht America it will

repeat it self in many cases over in Canada. As it goes its like a bever in bed with an elephant.

All i was doing is anylizing the whole situation and saying that for the most part the rulign make's sense. It was already a shady area leanign on the side of legal now downloading is. I discussed the merrits of the law, becuase i belive it should be aloud...i then explained why i think the music industry's current stance...is not workable and how they should just let people download music and work on re-gaining losses in other places.

You asked what i thought about it, and i told you...if you see the word America and get pissed off it is not my problem. Next, whenevert here is an article dealing with the music industry it is about every country in the world where a computer and a net connection is easily accessable. Aswell read the sub topics in the article....

Canada deems P2P downloading legal

But uploads aren’t; fees tacked on price of MP3 players

*i did talk about tacking fees on tot hings to regain lost money. why? becuase iw as also discussign the article you posted, there is more to it then "Canada deems P2P downloading legal" and then we discuss it...i was disscussign the whoel article.

Recording industry unhappy

*I also touched on the recording industry, why i disagree with there stance,a nd what i felt they shoudl do.

Issue not resolved

*i belive maybe i didn't do it atiquatley but that i feal that they are alternate ways to resolve it liek mentioned in a few of my points.

In the end you asked what we thought about the article....

I was sent this article by a friend and was wondering what you guys thought of it.

As i said i told you what i thought about it. even you said we are on our way to ticking off the Yanks again. what i mean i am trying to say is that whenever you discuss the music industry's problems they center around America,

They majority of 50 cent CD's were bought in AMerica, the Majority of linkin park CD's were bought in AMerica...and so on...so if the music industry is losign money they are losign most of it in America...and i was discussing the problem on the whole. If you want to sit back and diss some yanks, even though not all of Americans are yanks, and discuss further steps that can be taken to piss America off i am all for it lets make Chretien the Canadian ambassador to the U.S.