God Bless Canadian Judges

[Simon Rochelle]

This is possiblly one of the most meaningful things i have ever heard a judge utter.. (okay, an exaggeration, however, its very relavent to alot of issues thats prevalent at the moment.)

"I cannot see a real difference between a library that places a photocopy machine in a room full of copyrighted material and a computer user that places a personal copy on a shared directory linked to a P2P service,"

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http://www.web-user.co.uk/news/48323.html

[Charlie_Bubble]

Yeah, saw this earlier. That's one in the eye for the record industry.

[Jerrek]

The CRIA is bound to appeal that, but knowing our appeal courts, they'll side with the judge.

I, for one, now will never buy a CD again. They are levying a 10¢ tax per CD, and a few pennies per GB on hard drives sold, and on blank DVDs, etc. In fact, the iPod has a $25 (11 pounds) levy. This levy goes directly to the CRIA. Screw that. If I'm paying a levy, and now with this judge's ruling, I will never buy a CD again and I will download and download and download. VINDICATED!

[Charlie_Bubble]

I guess it's never crossed the minds of the record execs that years of selling CDs at vastly inflated prices and the lack of truly talented people being marketed these days in favour of musical reality tv show winners might account for the drop in sales.

[kronas]

im not going to buy any cds........except for one, or a few singles, the rest can go shoot themselves, because of what they do to online retailers such as 'cdwow' by enforcing them to source there cd's through europe, so we get them at expensive prices.........

[Charlie_Bubble]

I buy them still, but I really, really shop around and don't buy them as soon as they come out. I've found, too often, that the new CD I just bought is being sold for pounds less a month later in some 3 for £22 deal or other.

[kronas]

Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble

I buy them still, but I really, really shop around and don't buy them as soon as they come out. I've found, too often, that the new CD I just bought is being sold for pounds less a month later in some 3 for £22 deal or other.

the problem is sometimes you just cant wait, but as you said if you look around you can get cd's at reasonable prices, but you should not have to, its a monopoly with the prices at the moment........

[Charlie_Bubble]

Originally Posted by kronas

the problem is sometimes you just cant wait, but as you said if you look around you can get cd's at reasonable prices, but you should not have to, its a monopoly with the prices at the moment........

I was looking in WHSmith yesterday and almost bought one. 2 minutes later I found the same one in HMV for £5 less!!

[Jerrek]

New CDs here are about £7. Still too pricey. I've bought a few tracks from iTunes, and it is great. If there was no such crappy levy on media, I would buy all my tracks from them. But, since I'm paying for music anyways, I'll just take what I want.

I dunno, no matter how many times i download an album, i always seem to go out and buy it. Cd collections just dont look right with generic cases and cd's. In Bristol we have a Fopp which is really cheap. Can get some cd's for £3 in there sometimes. Also it has a 'suck it and see' policy that means if you buy some music, don't like it, you can take it back and swap it, or get your money back. 'ave a quick look at this