[mythtv-users] Torrentocracy

[Xavier Hervy]

David Huseby wrote:

> -] The 'piracy-tax' in Canada allows a very limited amount of 
> -] copying from a
> -] legal point of view.
> -] 
> -] Even though the end result is the same, in the second version, Sue is
> -] distributing which is still illegal.
> -] 
> -] Needless to say, it basically makes it perfectly legal in Canada to
> -] download Mp3's and copy them to a CD-R but it is illegal for 
> -] a person to
> -] actually put the Mp3's online.
> -] 
> -] Nothing is said about movies however.  Only music cd's and 
> -] Mp3-players
> -] like the iPod are taxed.  Hard drives are not taxed yet.
> 
> That's an interesting solution to ballancing the interests of users and
> copyright owners.  I disagree with it completely on the grounds that
> your government (I assume you're Canadian) is messing around with the
> free market and controlling a compensation system which assumes that all
> users of CD-R's are intending to make copies of CD's. (Not to say that
> the US government is any better in regards to economic freedom.)  I
> stand firmly against government sponsored redistribution/compensation
> systems, but I have to say that it is certainly a creative solution.
> 
You 're right, it's a stupid solution realise by the idiot french 
government too because it legitimize piracy.
Xavier