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CRIA Question
| Message Board > Music Chitchat - Heavy > CRIA Question |
| Gare User Info... | So I was on my kazaa today listening to some tunes when I happened to receive a message from our friendly local Canadian Recording Industry Association. It was odd it was actually a pretty friendly little message.They didn't threaten to sue or anything (I'm guessing this is only happening in the usa?). They just told me that we were sharing copyrighted files and sent a link to their website. Right the question, is it still illegal if I stop sharing the files but still keep kazaa and the ones I already downloaded? - Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:17am | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | I'm not sure if it has been determined what can happen to you in Canada. There is another discussion going on in Livevic about the new levy on CDs, which in Canada means you have already paid some money to the 'industry' and there should be nothing stopping you from recording it to CD legally. However, if the music is sitting on your hard drive, there has been no royalty paid on that stuff and I suspect eventually they will wish to come after people. I have no legal advice, but it might be wise to stop sharing. Better yet would be to move all your already downloaded stuff to another directory entirely and never share it out. (Keep your incoming and outgoing directories separate) Everytime you finish downloading something, move that file into your un-shared Incoming directory... and so on. Theres been a lot of discussion about such things on http://www.slashdot.org over the past few months (mostly US). If the recording industry continues to get its way we had all better watch out. If you want to really piss them off, the only thing you should be sharing is a file called: FUCK THE RIAA.TXT (Or up here: FUCK THE CIRA.TXT) - Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:32am | ||
| Robnoxious User Info... | So SHARING is illegal ??? Really, then why is it called SHARING, peer to peer. Seems like some more taxgrubbing greedy bastards. If the music industry was really about the music they would be pushing un-rippable technology, but obviously they're only about money and screwing the little guy. - Fri, 28 Nov 2003 1:25pm | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | Yes, we live in a world run by lawyers and greed-heads. What else has music been about for the last 30 years? They wrote the rules and they tend to enforce them eventually. Un-ripable music is unlikely to happen while still keeping universal playback a reality. The original CD format is inherently unprotected so that they could be played by very simple machines all over the world. Thats changing a bit now with copy-protected CDs and whatnot. (Wont work in some computers or car dashboards) The music industry is just trying to hang on to what it has and keep the profit engine going. I'd like to say they are doomed but probably whatever is going on will only limit our access to music even further. Thats probably the best reason for everyone who digs music to learn to play and share the music with everyone and no strings attached. Its the age-old dream of starting a whole new musical scene to which the existing industry has no control. Forget about radio play or TV videos however cause thats their turf. I've found that the music industry despises anarchy creeping into their business, but music consumers tend to love it. - Sat, 29 Nov 2003 8:03am | ||
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