On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:53:58AM -0500, Ian Trider wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:47:43 -0800, Brad Templeton > Sorry for contributiung to the offtopicness of this thread, but I have > to point out something: Canadian fair dealing rights ARE stronger -- > private copying is explicitly allowed, and the courts have said to > CRIA (Canadian Recording Industriy Association) "piss off!" when they > wanted the identities of "suspected file sharers". And we have no > DMCA.
Actually, we're both right. Canadian fair dealing rights in the broad spectrum are weaker, but there have been a series of special new rulings and regulations that have opened up things in the audio area. In particular Canada has a broader blank media tax (asked for by the CRIA) which has resulted in these new regulations. > > As to point #2, I've never heard any such thing and Google knows nothing of > it. The keyword to search for is "icravetv" (non-obvious). I have also heard stories of a guy out in Scarborough who has set up a neighbourhood mythtv/ISP cooperative, where a whole bunch of people have a network of backends and frontends and ethernet wired among them. Legal, in theory, in Canada, but unfortunately not in the USA.
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