Friday, April 08, 2005

Copywrite law in Canada

A bit of background: In Canada, it is currently legal to download music, movies or other copywrited material off the internet.

It is not legal to upload copywrited material to the net for others to download. Remember that. Downloading good, uploading bad. So for filesharing programs like Kazaa, it is illegal to share your content with the internet from Canada.

The reason for this is because Canada charges consumers a levy on every cassette, CD-R or ipod sold in the country.

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