Blame Canada

[Bob Hubbard]

Found this article on the RIAA's war against file swapers...I almost wanna become a Canuck.

From http://techcentralstation.com/081803C.html
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Blame Canada

By Jay Currie Published 08/18/2003


A desperate American recording industry is waging a fierce fight against digital copyright infringement seemingly oblivious to the fact that, for practical purposes, it lost the digital music sharing fight over five years ago. In Canada.



"On March 19, 1998, Part VIII of the (Canadian) Copyright Act dealing with private copying came into force. Until that time, copying any sound recording for almost any purpose infringed copyright, although, in practice, the prohibition was largely unenforceable. The amendment to the Act legalized copying of sound recordings of musical works onto audio recording media for the private use of the person who makes the copy (referred to as "private copying"). In addition, the amendment made provision for the imposition of a levy on blank audio recording media to compensate authors, performers and makers who own copyright in eligible sound recordings being copied for private use."

-- Copyright Board of Canada: Fact Sheet: Private Copying 1999-2000 Decision
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/news/c19992000fs-e.html



The Copyright Board of Canada administers the Copyright Act and sets the amount of the levies on blank recording media and determines which media will have levies imposed. Five years ago this seemed like a pretty good deal for the music industry: $0.77 CDN for a blank CD and .29 a blank tape, whether used for recording music or not. Found money for the music moguls who had been pretty disturbed that some of their product was being burned onto CDs. To date over 70 million dollars has been collected through the levy and there is a good possibility the levy will be raised and extended to MP3 players, flash memory cards and recordable DVDs sometime in 2003.



While hardware vendors whine about the levy, consumers seem fairly indifferent. Why? Arguably because the levy is fairly invisible - just another tax in an overtaxed country. And because it makes copying music legal in Canada.

The rest of the articles an interesting read...

:asian:

 

[Chronuss]

...I blame Canada for everything....acid rain...Howie Mandell...:shrug:

 

[Seig]

Originally posted by Chronuss
...I blame Canada for everything....acid rain...Howie Mandell...:shrug:

and Michael J Fox

 

[Chronuss]

...didn't know he was a Canuck.

 

[TheRustyOne]

Originally posted by Chronuss
...I blame Canada for everything....acid rain...Howie Mandell...:shrug:

....Bryan Adams... *spasmotic twitching*

 

[Seig]

so is Shania Twain

 

[Ender]

Shania makes me tingle...in odd places...*L

 

[KenpoGirl]

Famouse Canadian Actors


Aykroyd, Dan: Comedian, Actor. "Saturday Night Live", "The Blues Brothers"

Bain, Conrad: Actor. "Diff'rent Strokes", "Maude".

Burr, Raymond: Actor. "Perry Mason", "Ironside"

Candy, John: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV"

Carrey, Jim: Comedian, Actor. "The Mask", "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective", "The Truman Show"

Chaykin, Maury: Actor. "Dances with Wolves", "Whale Music", "Buried on Sunday"

Chong, Thomas: Comedian, Actor. Half of Cheech and Chong

Doohan, James: Actor. Scotty on "Star Trek"

Elliott, David James: Actor. "Melrose Place", "JAG"

Foley, David: Comedian, Actor. "Kids in the Hall", "News Radio"

Fox, Michael J.: Actor. "Back to the Future", "Family Ties"

Fraser, Brendan: Actor. "Gods and Monsters", "The Mummy"

Frewer, Matt: Actor. played "Max Headroom", "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", "Star Trek:TNG"

George, Chief Dan: Actor. "Little Big Man" (AAN), "The Outlaw Josey Wales"

Goulet, Robert: Singer, Actor. "Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear"

Greene, Graham: Actor. "Dances with Wolves" (AAN)

Greene, Lorne: Actor. Played Ben Cartwright on "Bonanza", "Battlestar Galactica"

Gross, Paul: Actor. "Due South", "Buried on Sunday"

Hartman, Phil: Actor, Comedian. "Saturday Night Live", "News Radio"

Ironside, Michael: Actor. "Scanners", "Top Gun", "Total Recall"

Levy, Eugene: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV"

McCormack, Eric: Actor. "Will & Grace", "Street Justice"

McCulloch, Bruce: Comedian. "Kids in the Hall"

McDonald, Kevin: Comedian. "Kids in the Hall"

MacDonald, Norm: Comedian, Actor: "Saturday Night Live"

McKinney, Mark: Comedian. "Kids in the Hall", "Saturday Night Live"

Mandel, Howie: Comedian, Actor. "St. Elsewhere"

Manners, David: Actor, Author. "Dracula" (1930), "The Mummy"

Moranis, Rick: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV", "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"

Morse, Barry: Actor. "The Fugitive" (the original series), "Space 1999"

Myers, Mike: Comedian, Actor. Wayne Campbell on "Saturday Night Live"

Nielsen, Leslie: Actor. "The Naked Gun", "Forbidden Planet". Brother was Deputy Prime Minister

Ontkean, Michael: Actor. "The Rookies", "Twin Peaks".

Perry, Matthew: Actor. "Friends"

Pidgeon, Walter: Actor. "How Green Was My Valley", "Forbidden Planet"

Pinsent, Gordon: Actor, Writer. "The Rowdy Man", "Who has Seen the Wind?", "John and the Missus", "Due South"

Plummer, Christopher: Actor. "The Sound of Music", "Star Trek VI"

Priestley, Jason: Actor. "Beverly Hills 90210"

Qualen, John: Actor. "Casablanca", "The Devil and Daniel Webster", "The Searchers", "Anatomy of a Murder"

Reeves, Keanu: Actor. "Johnny Mnemonic", "Speed", "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure"

Rubinek, Saul: Actor. "Unforgiven", "The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick", "Star Trek:TNG"

Russell, Harold: Actor, Soldier. received two Academy Awards for role in "The Best Years of Our Lives"

Sarrazin, Michael: Actor. "They Shoot Horses Don't They?", "Joshua Then and Now"

Sennett, Mack: Director, Comedian, Actor, Producer. the Keystone Kops, "Tillie's Punctured Romance"

Shatner, William: Actor. Captain James T. Kirk on "Star Trek"

Short, Martin: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV", "Saturday Night Live", "Clifford"

Silverheels, Jay: Actor. Tonto on "The Lone Ranger", "Key Largo"

Sutherland, Donald: Actor. "M*A*S*H", "Klute", "Ordinary People", "Eye of the Needle", "Bethune"

Sutherland, Kiefer: Actor, Director. "The Bay Boy", "Stand By Me", "A Few Good Men"

Thicke, Alan: Actor. "Hope and Gloria"

Thomas, Dave: Comedian. "SCTV", "Strange Brew", "Grace Under Fire"

Thompson, Scott: Comedian, Actor. "Kids in the Hall"

Vernon, John: Actor. "Animal House", "Dirty Harry"

Wincott, Michael: "The Crow", "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves", "1492, Conquest of Paradise"

Soles, Paul: the original voice of Spiderman

Waxman, Al: Actor. "Cagney and Lacey", "King of Kensington"


Actresses

Anderson, Pamela: Actress. "Baywatch", "Barb Wire"

Blanchard, Rachel Actress: "Clueless"

Clark, Susan: Actress. "Webster", "Amelia Earhart", "Babe"

Henstridge, Natasha: Actress. "Species" bio

Hennessy, Jillian: Actress. "Law and Order"

Kidder, Margot: Actress. Lois Lane in "Superman"

Martin, Andrea: Comedienne, Actress. "SCTV", "Star Trek: DS9"

Montgomery, Belinda J. : Actress. "The Man From Atlantis", "Doogie Howser MD"

Moss, Carrie-Anne: Actress. "The Matrix", "Memento"

Oh, Sandra: Actress. "Double Happiness", "The Red Violin", "Last Night"

Paquin, Anna: Actress. "The Piano", "Jane Eyre", "Amistad", "X-Men"

Parker, Molly "Kissed", "Twitch City", "Sunshine"

O'Hara, Catherine: Comedienne, Actress. "SCTV" "Beetlejuice", "Home Alone"


Robertson, Kathleen: Actress. "Beverly Hills 90210"

Reuben, Gloria: Actress. "ER"

Unger, Deborah: Actress. "Crash", The Hurricane

Tweed, Shannon: Actress. "Falcon Crest"

Wray, Fay: Actress. "King Kong"

Musicians

Adams, Bryan: Musician. "Cuts Like a Knife", "Everything I Do, I Do It For You"

Anka, Paul: Musician. "Diana", "My Way", "The Tonight Show Theme"

April Wine: Band. "You Could Have Been A Lady", "Bad Side Of The Moon"

Arden, Jann: Musician. "Living Under June"

Bachman-Turner-Overdrive: Band. "Let It Ride", "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"

Barenaked Ladies: Band. "If I Had $1,000,000", "Be My Yoko Ono"

Charlebois, Robert: Musician.

Cockburn, Bruce: Musician. "Wondering Where the Lions Are", "If I Had a Rocket Launcher"

Cohen, Leonard: Author, Musician. "Suzanne", "Beautiful Losers",

Cole, Holly: Singer. The Holly Cole Trio

The Cowboy Junkies: Band. "The Trinity Session", "Black-Eyed Man"

The Crash Test Dummies: Band. "God Shuffled His Feet", "Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm"

Dion, Celine: Singer. "Beauty and the Beast"

Ferguson, Maynard: Jazz Trumpeter. "Gonna Fly Now" theme from Rocky

Ferron: Musician. "Phantom Center"

Gould, Glenn: Classical Pianist. "Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould"

The Guess Who: Band. "American Woman"

Hart, Corey: Musician. "Sunglasses at Night"

Healey, Jeff: Musician. "Angel Eyes", "Confidence Man"

Diana Krall: Jazz

Kreviazuk, Chantal: Musician. "Under these Rocks and Stones"

lang, k.d.: Musician. "Absolute Torch and Twang", "Ingenue"

Lanois, Daniel: Producer, Musician. "Acadie", also produced U2 and Bob Dylan

Lightfoot, Gordon: Musician. "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", "If You Could Read My Mind"

Lombardo, Guy: Musician, Band Leader.

McGarrigle, Kate and Anna: Musicians. "Heart Like a Wheel", "Heartbeats Accelerating"

MacIsaac, Ashley: Musician. "Hi, How Are You Today?"

McKennitt, Loreena: Musician. "The Mask and Mirror", "The Book Of Secrets"

McLachlan, Sarah: Musician. "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy"

Mitchell, Joni: Musician. "Raised on Robbery", "Help Me", "Free Man in Paris"

Morissette, Alanis: Musician. "You Oughta Know", "Jagged Little Pill"

Murray, Anne: Musician. "Snowbird", "You Needed Me"

Parker, Jon Kimura : Classical concert pianist.

Peterson, Oscar: Jazz Pianist.

Plamondon, Luc: Composer. "Starmania"

The Pursuit of Happiness: Band. "I'm an Adult Now", "Two Girls In One"

Robertson, Robbie: Musician. Formerly of The Band, "Somewhere
Down the Crazy River", "Storyville"

Rogers, Garnet: Folk Musician

Rogers, Stan: Folk Musician

Rough Trade: Band. "All Touch (and No Contact)", "High School Confidential"

Rush: Band. "The Spirit of Radio", "Tom Sawyer", newsgroup
Sainte-Marie, Buffy: Musician, Actress. "Universal Soldier", "Summer Boy"

Shaffer, Paul: Musician. band leader on "The Late Show with David Letterman"

Siberry, Jane: Musician. "Mimi on the Beach", "Love is Everything",biography

Skinny Puppy: Band. "Addiction", "Stairs and Flowers"

Snow, Hank: Musician. "I'm Moving On", "I've Been Everywhere"

Stratas, Teresa: Opera singer.

Twain, Shania: Musician , "The Woman In Me"

The Tragically Hip: Band. "New Orleans is Sinking"

Vannelli, Gino: Musician. "Black cars look better in the shade"

Voisine, Roch: Musician, Actor. "Hélène"

Neil Young: Musician. "Heart of Gold", "Southern Man", "Powderfinger"

Entertainers
Hall, Monty: Host of "Let's Make A Deal" and other game shows.
Henning, Doug: Magician.
Le Cirque du Soleil: avant garde circus
Linkletter, Art:
Little, Rich: Impressionist.
Trebek, Alex: Host of "Jeopardy".

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Yes, but whats their stance on P2P file sharing, and the morons at the RIAA?

 

[KenpoGirl]

Originally posted by Kaith Rustaz
Yes, but whats their stance on P2P file sharing, and the morons at the RIAA?

EX-SQUEAZE ME???

LOL I'm guessing that's geek talk.

and like any good politician all I can say is ..... "No comment"

Dot

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Naw..not geek talk.

one must read the initial post and the associated article. Only then will one truely understand the greatness of Canada.

 

[Cruentus]

Just walk around Montreal, or Toronto! So...I blame Canadian women.....For Being Smokin' Hotttt!! :inlove:

[Uh-Oh...in comes my Fiancee'] :btg: :btg: :btg:

:rofl:

 

[redfang]

As far as civil liberties go, human rights and all that hooey, Canada whups the pants off the USA. When I hear the term land of the free, I tend to think of Canada now, while the US becomes more and more a repressive reactionary state.

 

[Aikikitty]

Don't forget Colin Mockery (sp?) from "Whose Line is it Anyway?". He's Canadian. Ryan Styles might be too. I'm not sure.

That's a neat list, Kenpogirl. I had no idea that most of those people were Canadian.

Robyn :asian:

 

[Elfan]

Grep Law disagrees:

http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1655233&mode=thread

A lot of people seem to be saying that file-sharing is legal in Canada. Upon close interpretation of Canadian law, we think that downloading songs from the internet is legal, but sharing files or uploading files via p2p is strictly illegal. We don't want Canadians exposing themselves to lawsuit liability because of the wrong ideas, so please read our analysis."