Actually, contrary to popular belief, this legal theory has not been tested.

In Canada, we pay a blank media levy on certain designated types of blank media; namely black CDs and audiocassettes. However, we do not pay a levy on other forms of blank media, such as DVDs, hard drives, iPods and other mp3 players, etc.

Section 80 of the Canadian Copyright Act says its not an infringement of copyright to make a private copy of a sound recording onto designated blank media. However, it’s still an open questions as to whether the private copying exception applies if the blank media has not been designated…and considering that most forms of media we currently use have not been designated, this is a huge issue.

They have succeeded in intimidating people to stop. Look how pirating the workprint of Wolverine hurt that movie!!1

The following is my attempt to ask the Spanish speakers to write their posts in English as well as Spanish so everyone can understand them:
Si usted puede leer en ingles por favor escribi usted en ingles tambien. Quiero todos los personas comprender todos las palabras. Muchas personas solo hablan ingles.
Gracias.

6-7 CDs sold per 100 peer-to-peer shares is actually a pretty good ratio these days.

NO A LA SGAE!, NO A LA SGAE!, NO ALA SGAE!

“Where the heck is China???”

They’re lending billions of $$$ to the US to keep the US economy from tanking completely.

Orders from the top are : Don’t piss China off over something trivial. But go ahead and bully other countries as usual.

Heres the fact:

In Spain, the society of authors and writers (sgae) is the one who’s pulling the law against downloads and is, most probably, giving those stats…

The real problem is that in Spain we pay a tax for each writable Dvd, hard drive, scanner, phone camera…etc, anything that can be used to support a “ilegal” copy. So, this takes me to the point that, although we are the first on the list, we PAY for it.

So screw SGAE, its only a bunch of dead end singers who woudnt get their CD’s sold even if they gave you a house with it…

“Canada now has more than 3.5 times as many recorded infringements per capita as the US.”

That is most likely very untrue.

These alleged stats (and who is to say they didn’t just pull the numbers out of their a$$es$, submit the report and collect their money) appear to represent all media types.

In Canada, download of music (only) for personal use (only) has been deemed legal because we pay $$$ for it in ad advance (see Private Copy Levy on blank media).

No doubt, the American company producing these alleged statistics interprets the whole world by American (World Cop Inc.) law.

So comparison is meaningless (at least until the idiot harper completes the transfer of ownership of Canada to the US).

Have people really forgot how to research on how NOT to get caught?

“What are they using – a piece of string with a tin can at each end?”

Plus a drum and smoke signal.

Es que vamos, un ejemplo clarito:
X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Uncaged Edition en una página de UK con envío gratuito: 52€
X-Men Orígenes: Lobezno (Normal) en una gran tienda en España: 70€

JA!

Empieza a hablar de ello en el 1:20

Spain ranking 2007: 2
Spain ranking 2008: 1
Spain counts: 24,749,379

Italy ranking 2007: 4
Italy ranking 2008: 2
Italy counts: 19,233,279

¡Ja! ¡Casi 5 millones por encima del segundo clasificado! ¡Oleole!

Aunque lo mejor es en enlace tb de abajo q se da a la vez:
alt1040.com/2007/10/espana-es-lider-mundial-en-adopcion-de-licencias-cs