On Sunday 17 December 2006 12:18, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > On 2006-12-17 11:19, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > Anyway, if that's your concern just use re-writeable media to burn the > > CD or DVD. But since optical media is pretty cheap and the likelihood > > of a problem is pretty low, why bother? > > Check out the prices at bestbuy.ca -- there is a fee collected by a > consortium run by the recording industry that pretty much doubles the > price of blank media in Canada. We are led to believe (like the Queen of > Hearts, I am capable of believing impossible things ;-) ) that the fee > goes to the artists who actually created the music.
But at least a Canadian Court has ruled that music copying and/or swapping is legal because of this fee if I am not mistaken. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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