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Ok folks, so should P2P file sharing
of music be legal? All I know is that it has adversely affected
music quality and music sales in the last 10 years. Those who are
familiar with copyright law and its principals, and make music professionally,
are usually up in arms defending the law. However due to lack of
lobby support there is little push in Ottawa to update our existing
laws to protect work with respect to file sharing.
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42/index.html
So what is the remedy? Law suits? Major Canadian acts don’t want
to see their fans punished for downloading, or vulnerable to “spyware”
or anti-piracy software…like PACE. (which is already embedded in
XP)
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/
ArticleNews/story/CTVNews
/20060509/artists_copyright
_060509/20060509?hub=Entertainment
There has to be balance, paid downloads and value added freebies…but
at the end of the day…people have to pay, period.
“The UK and Germany are Canada's competitors in the International
Music world but they have flourishing online musc markets which
are strengthening their position as Canada's competitors. And those
countries now have as many people buying music online legally as
there are stealing music online - Please have a read of The Digital
Music Report.
The policy of neglect will hurt Canada's music community and the
development of new talent - Careers of home grown Canadian artists
are going to be strangled at birth - that is bad for the economy,
bad for culture, bad for creation and bad for entertainment.
Canada will no longer punch above its weight in the Global Market.”
-
John Kennedy.
Chairman
and Chief Executive of IFPI (represent the recording industry worldwide)
http://www.cria.ca/news
/020306_n.php
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