Read here first, including commments.
The government is on the attack again. Legislation is going through the House of Commons now that will enable fines for ANYONE who downloads material. I download material, regularly. Whether it is a game, movie or music, it does not matter; I download anything that is of interest to me. I can honestly say that if I do like something I download I go and buy it. For instance I downloaded a copy of Princess Mononoke. I fucking loved it! So I bought not only the DVD but a VHS version as well as burned my ‘illegal’ copy of Princess Mononoke to a disc so I can play it on a laptop without a dvd drive.
Now is that an illegal act? I submit that I purchased more than the normal consumer therefore it’s not. That’s not the only example. I have purchased and downloaded countless products. I have stacks of dvd’s loaded with material. Do I sell them… no… do I use them… sometimes. Mostly I watch, listen or play once and they hit the shelf. If I really like it and want to continue to be entertained then I buy it.
Sorry industry, gone are the days of buying a CD for one song, gone are the days of purchasing a $60 game only to have it suck so bad you put it on the shelf (once the box is opened you cannot return it or sell it). Frankly, this is a message to developers of entertainment to stop shipping us shit (Narnia series, games about Bratz, anything by Mariah Cary, etc.) and start allowing only quality artists to produce material.
Even if this legislation comes into play it may be a serious spank to our rights. How can they regulate what we do in this country? I can tape a TV show and give it to my friend, I can load MP3s onto my iPod, I can play a game that I download from steam. How can they control what I do? Taking away rights like that could be one step closer to a full on dictatorship.
And calling me a thief (Re: above article) for downloading information, that’s just rude. I am willing to bet that the person doing the name calling is guilty themselves.
Why not work on something more meaningful like, I dunnno, gas shortages, food shortages, criminals, violence, wars etc… why is downloading music become a capital crime?
Get with it Harper you dumbass. Control your government and stop doing stupid shit!
2cp
2 comments:
As much as this legislation is complete bullshit (it would also make it illegal to burn CDs that YOU purchased to your OWN computer and put them on YOUR iPod)....
I'm glad Harper got up yesterday and finally made the formal apology to the Natives, Inuit and Metis of Canada for the residential school debacle.
It also makes it illegal to loan a CD to your buddy without written permission of the Copyright holder.
And yes the apology was good but too little to late. Listening to what they went through is really appaling. Fing christians, fing government.
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