Jorge
October 29th, 2007, 10:40 PM
Fears de facto legalized file-sharing if people are made to pay a fee to cover its effects and thereby theoretically immune from charges of stealing.
Misery makes for strange bedfellows as they say, and the miserable state that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), much like the music industry here to the south of our northern neighbors, has actually compelled it to take the side of consumers by working to defeat the infamous so-called "iPod tax" that has been proposed by the Canadian Private Copyright Collective (CPCC).
Last Friday the Federal Court of Appeals granted the CRIA's request to intervene in the case, but did so with major caveat - that it will no way discuss file-sharing or P2P as it makes its case for defeating the proposal.
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Misery makes for strange bedfellows as they say, and the miserable state that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), much like the music industry here to the south of our northern neighbors, has actually compelled it to take the side of consumers by working to defeat the infamous so-called "iPod tax" that has been proposed by the Canadian Private Copyright Collective (CPCC).
Last Friday the Federal Court of Appeals granted the CRIA's request to intervene in the case, but did so with major caveat - that it will no way discuss file-sharing or P2P as it makes its case for defeating the proposal.
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Read Full Article Here (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zeropaid/~3/176933729/CRIA+Trying+to+Stop+the+So-Called+%27iPod+Tax%27)