Why Canada is better than the U.S

[bigmack]

The courts in Canada ruled that downloading music files for personal use is not a crime. That stands in sharp contrast to the United States, where teenage girls and older grandmas alike are threatened with prison time and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines by the RIAA for downloading birthday tunes.
In the United States, they have a war on everything: the war on drugs, the war on terrorism, the war on cancer. It's a great mindset for their ever-expanding police state. But only in the U.S would you find an organization like the RIAA who is stupid enough to declare war on their own customers.

Music lovers north of the border can swap songs online without fear of breaking the law, thanks to a Canadian court decision.
A Federal Court judge ruled that downloading songs for personal use or having files available on a computer connected to the Internet doesn't violate copyright laws.

Americans and Europeans beware: this strictly Canadian decision doesn't bring any more clarity to the murky issue of file-sharing in their parts of the world.

When I get stopped by cops for speeding i'm gonna have my notebook on beside me with IRC open bootlegging albums.

 

[critikaldesignz]

Canada > U.S.A.







at bootlegging.

 

[LesanePCrooks96]

^That's pretty reasonable of Canada...too bad you won't see any decisions like that here.

 

[bigmack]

they should open a special bootlegging section on the forum for Canadians only,like all about you for the women,we should have one for the canadian bootleggers



/me slaps an american with a large piece of canadian bacon j/p i love americans.especially the ultra thin women

 

[critikaldesignz]

/me laughs with pride.

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

Because Calcuo says so?

Oh, you have other reasons, nevermind.

 

[Ghetto_Ghost]

is it still illegal if i burn and sell them?

 

[bigmack]

is it still illegal if i burn and sell them?

yea,thats when it becomes illegal. downloading them and burning them for personal use is fine.

 

[Flipmo]

Harharhar!

*downloads 4 gigs of music*

 

[Zero Cool]

Canadians are far less arrogant than Americans, only problem is their weather sucks

 

[Pacaveli-T]

ah nvm mind anyways i have about 40 gigs on my comp worth of bootlegged shit and i am proud to be a pirator..

right damien...

 

[Troublesome1996]

eh, wots this aboot?

 

[whazzzupdude]

Canadians are far less arrogant than Americans, only problem is their weather sucks

Yea, our iglus are beginning to melt because of the greenhouse effect.

 

[Synful*Luv]

Great, must become an illegal immigrant of Canada. I just got my citizenship in the USA and now I''m going to forfeit it just to download music.

Wait, if I download music in Canada and then bring it back to the USA, could the Americans still convict me

 

[whazzzupdude]

Great, must become an illegal immigrant of Canada. I just got my citizenship in the USA and now I''m going to forfeit it just to download music.

Wait, if I download music in Canada and then bring it back to the USA, could the Americans still convict me

I'm not quite sure of this, but I think the U.S. fines/arrests you because ,not just that you are downloading, but you also have posession of bootlegged music.

 

[Chronic]

You Canads are lucky bastards.

 

[Synful*Luv]

But it's legal bootlegged music because it came from my PERSONAL collection in Canda

 

[whazzzupdude]

I know what you mean, but I have heard of places where even possesion of any bootlegged materials can result in fines and arrest so you should be careful before doing anything.

 

[Devious]

The courts in Canada ruled that downloading music files for personal use is not a crime. That stands in sharp contrast to the United States, where teenage girls and older grandmas alike are threatened with prison time and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines by the RIAA for downloading birthday tunes.
In the United States, they have a war on everything: the war on drugs, the war on terrorism, the war on cancer. It's a great mindset for their ever-expanding police state. But only in the U.S would you find an organization like the RIAA who is stupid enough to declare war on their own customers.

Music lovers north of the border can swap songs online without fear of breaking the law, thanks to a Canadian court decision.
A Federal Court judge ruled that downloading songs for personal use or having files available on a computer connected to the Internet doesn't violate copyright laws.

Americans and Europeans beware: this strictly Canadian decision doesn't bring any more clarity to the murky issue of file-sharing in their parts of the world.

When I get stopped by cops for speeding i'm gonna have my notebook on beside me with IRC open bootlegging albums.

Yo bigmack, do you have a source on this? Because last I heard, the decision made in 2003 that p2p downloading in Canada is legal was going to be overturned. I looked for any info on a new decision being made and only found articles referring to the 2003 decision.

 

[Flipmo]

^^^ they were thinking of adding a tax for mp3 downloading in canada, but it was refuted afterwards, so they left it legal. That's what all the talk was about in 2003.