Mark Lanctot;238668 Wrote: > Hmm...if you did bother to read this thread you'd see I'm Canadian. Now > I know we're seen internationally as the USA's retarded little brother > but we are still a separate country and we do have separate laws. Well, I don't: I see the USA as the retarded loudmouth little brother of Canada... > We already pay extra for blank media (originally tapes, now blank CDs > and DVDs) due to the possibility that we *may* record copyrighted > material onto it. This automatically assumes we're all guilty. Yet > recording copyrighted material is still illegal. So we're paying for > something we're not allowed to do in the first place. The same applies here except the last 2 lines. This rule is being interpreted by dutch law as giving us the right to create a copy of every CD we own or hire... > Now they want to extend this to flash drives and hard drives, but the > capacities of these are so much greater that the extra cost would be > tremendous. Imagine the royalties for the amount of material that > could fit on a 500 GB or 1 TB drive... the same was going to happen here and was being initiated by the organisation responsible for collecting copyrights, but the Dutch government shot down that initiative because the organisation couldn't produce correct figures about the money they were collecting and where it went... Go figure that... > The RIAA and MPAA exert influence worldwide and they are in the process > of getting laws changed here and in the EU. It seems that both > Canadian and EU politicians are as easily bought as American > politicians - no surprise there. Well, there's the problem that we have more than 2 parties around here and you need more than 2 parties to get a majority in the European parliament. And even if you have such a majority in the European parliament, you will still have to convince every single country of the EU... > So what goes in the USA goes worldwide, don't be so naive to think > otherwise. The US dictates how the world runs, like it or not.I'm not sure > how it's in Canada, but here in Europe it's more and more: "Nice that you're shouting your opinion but could you now shut up..." At the going rate the US will be a 3rd world country at the end of the next decade...
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