New copyright legislation to be passed in Canada

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• randomuser

  December 2007 edited December 2007

  Ive already downloaded a majority of the music Ive liked released in the past twenty years.
  
  I havent bought a CD in 10 years probably, I would buy CD's if they were a reasonable price like 5 dollars. Im pretty sure the manafactured material costs mere cents in mass production.
  
  When they go on about how youre stealing from artists its a big crock only the richest artists get paid by a quota of CD"s sold while the rest get paid a contract fee.
  
  Ive always wondered, if some file sharer was actually sued, why not go ahead and buy all of the CD's, then when the court date is up bring them all in and claim you had a right to own a digital copy, and then sue for abuse of process etc
• Insatiable

  December 2007 edited December 2007

  I can't stand these record industry assholes bitchin' about fairness and property. It may be a good idea to buy a bunch of CDs if you're getting sued; however, I've read that the Canadian courts are making it harder for downloaders to get sued, so hopefully file sharers have nothing to worry about.
• Student0667

  December 2007 edited December 2007

  First, we got shut out of demonoid, now this...
  
  I will still be downloading music, try and catch me!
• randomuser

  December 2007 edited December 2007

  i heart downloading music, i think all those guilt trips when you like go to movies and hear record companies on the radio is hilarious, i almost find the adds at the theatre comical.
  
  there are no downsides to downloading music, other than speed sometimes, but its arguable its easier and quicker to download an entire album than walk to the store and spend the money you spent hours working for
  
  i like soulseek, limewire is too infested with ad results and fake songs
• Agentbob

  December 2007 edited December 2007

  I don't understand why our Canadian government is bending over for these Americans. It's pathetic.
  
  These record companies *cough*RIAA*cough* are simply too greedy. They don't care about the artists, their only interest is filling up their own pockets. Artists gets more from concerts and merchandises than they do from record sales. If RIAA wants more profits, those old-baboons have to adapt (digital downloads for example), not go on a sue-happy trip.
• Insatiable

  December 2007 edited December 2007

  Agentbob;19797 said:

  I don't understand why our Canadian government is bending over for these Americans. It's pathetic.
  
  These record companies *cough*RIAA*cough* are simply too greedy. They don't care about the artists, their only interest is filling up their own pockets. Artists gets more from concerts and merchandises than they do from record sales. If RIAA wants more profits, those old-baboons have to adapt (digital downloads for example), not go on a sue-happy trip.

  Good point. Something worth adding is the fact that artists make something like a mere 30% off of every album they sell; the rest goes to the record company! Not too many artists are bitchin' about file sharing, it's almost exclusively the record companies who are. The Conservative government's agenda is to side with the US on many issues. This may have some advantages but it becomes hardly surprising that the influence to change our copyright legislation is coming exclusively from the US.
• randomuser

  December 2007 edited December 2007

  I dont think most artists even get 30% of every album they sell...Ive heard many stories of how artists in the 90s who sold over a million CD's were only paid 30-100k as they were new artists. So all that extra profit went into the record companies pockets.
  
  The only ones that probably do are the vocal ones, like metallica, I cant stand them after that crap they went on about illegal downloads