I wouldn't support the levy because not everyone who buys blanks uses them for burning illegal music. but... thats how taxes work. making people pay for things that they dont use.













i think you mean turning into

 

oh yeah i forgot to say something about that...

actually 2 things, the majority of blank CD sold are used for music.

secondly, we have a photo shop, and as ost of you know CDs are used alot in the photo industry nowadays. The cd's we use dont have that levy... and we can't use them for anything else but putting photos on them. if we are caught using them for something else the penalty is very high.

 

to compensate music creators, whose work might be copied for private use.


Complete fucking horseshit. I only used blank dvds for data, so why the fuck should music creators be compensated?

Next, you will be driving along and pulled over...why? You will be handed a speeding ticket, because you might be speeding.

 

thanks for singling me out... again.



exactly. and then there's the logic behind it, which is just mindblowing. "hey, copying copyrighted CDs is illegal, but hey, since someone is going to do it anyway, we want a cut of the action." :wtf:

 

wasnt really singling you out man... everyone thought what you said thats all.

and it's illegal in the USA but it isint here... it's actually leagal for us to download and make CDs (for personnal use) obviously we cant sell them.

 

it doesn't make sense in principal, because you don't have to burn music onto a blank CD. and at least in america, you're allowed to make copies of legally obtained intellectual property for your own personal use. dunno how it is in canada.

but if it shuts the recording industry up, i can see why people would support it. that doesn't make it good, tho, because the recording industry is still full of shit.

i'd just stock up on blank CDs every time i went out of the country :rick:

 

as i said before here it's legal to download using a p2p and burn a cd for personal use. and what else can you use to play music if not a blank CD?

 

:eh: i meant that you can burn any kind of data onto a blank CD, not just music.

edit: but you could put music on plenty of things that aren't CDs, like ipods. there are plenty of digital audio players that can read memory cards, like memory stick, SD, XD, CF, etc...

so all p2p file sharing is legal in canada? or just downloading...?

 

from what i understand downloading but not sharing. and all of the other medias you mentioned also have levys on them. except MP3 player but they will probbly but levy ont that too..

i think it's a great deal.

 

Socialism eh?