Here are some excellent articles and essays that put the spectrum of issues around Canadian copyright law & its reform in great perspective.

Click here to read them.

And now, the copyright soapbox.

For those of us interested in doing our own thing online without needing to ask permission from some company and only in paying for the bandwidth we use and the electrons we suck out of the wall copyright is truly a fundamental concern.

There are some folks (let's call them "interests") who would have you believe that if the ability to make a mixed cd/whatever and [GASP] play it on whatever you want is allowed to continue, the entire worldwide artistic endeavor of humankind will collapse overnight. Ha!

It would be less funny if these interests weren't throwing the GNP of a small country into lobbying the Canadian government into silly things like the taxes on blank media that could be used to record MP3's - as though you were using them for that - regardless of reality.

So you're paying a tax to compensate these "interests" as though you were doing something illegal. That's collective punishment. Perhaps if we would't allow it under the Geneva convention, it's not such a healthy thing to stimulate artistic growth and prosperity?

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