Comments on: CIPPIC on Canadian IP plan

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:34:00 +0000

Vote liberal. Get frigged coming and going by the tax man.

Bunch of criminals.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 04:05:55 +0000

This isn’t quite the same thing, this is a levy which is charged on top of a tax. This doesn’t go into the provincial or federal coffers to be used towards health care, education, roads etc this goes to the holder of copyright. More than likely it will stay the same … I know if I was a big corporation holding the rights to songs I’d want to continue getting a peice of the $30 million a year pie

On the flip side a coalition of businesses such as walmart have been trying to end the levy on recording media and mp3 players, not sure what the status of that is and whether they will ultimately be successful or not.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 03:28:11 +0000

http://slashdot.org/~saskboy/journal/102027
If Canadian, read how to fight the new law.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 02:09:37 +0000

I’m curious to see if the tax on cd’s and dvd’s that was meant to compensate artists for downloaded music will be removed or if it’ll stay as just another tax grab. When it came in, the government and music industry said in essence that anyone who purchases a cd or dvd will use it to pirate music/videos so a tax is needed to pay the artists that Canadian internet users who burn their own media WILL steal. If p2p sharing is now made illegal, how will the government justify the tax . . . I’m sure they’ll find a way. >:(