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Canada: Downloading music is legal
News Downloading copyrighted music from peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, although uploading files is not, Canadian copyright regulators said in a ruling released on Friday. Our position is that under Canadian law, downloading is also prohibited...
[December 15, 2003, 8:50]
Canada: Downloading music is legal
Talkback Thats Awsome That Downloading Is Legal. Thats Why We Pay Levy On Cd's, etc GO CANADA!
[April 5, 2004, 22:30]
Canada: Downloading music is legal
Talkback It's great that downloading music is now legal. Many musicians don't seem to get the fact that through downloading, more and more people become aware of who they (the artisits) are and what type of music they perform.
[April 5, 2004, 23:50]
Canada: Downloading music is legal
Talkback skrew the whole world and this fn downloading despute shit.every one can go piss off im sick o fit.this shit is not for our artists bennafite.its for our fed up gonernmenst and theyr greedy little piss fn hands.
[December 31, 2003, 2:22]
Canada: Downloading music is legal
Talkback Downloading it ofcourse. I agree with the first poster. They need to lower the prices. Look at the ipod and other huge mp3 players. How is one suposed to fill up the hd without being covered with money.
[April 2, 2004, 17:08]
UK firm claims patents on Internet downloading
News A UK company claims to own a number of patents that relate to the process of downloading software and virus-protection updates over the Internet. We have various patents that cover various ways of downloading software updates over the Web...
[June 14, 2004, 17:40]
Why am I spending hours downloading a 100MB update?
Member Review Not only do I have to spend 2 hours downloading this thing (and I'm on broadband), but when I finally get it installed (worked OK), I discover that I have a glorified personal firewall and pop-up blocking (which I had before) and that's about it.
[September 20, 2004, 15:36]
Manchester police boss sacked for downloading porn
News One of Britain's largest police forces has sacked a manager for downloading pornography on his computer and sexually harassing female colleagues. Company policy typically bans downloading pornography, but sackings for Internet abuse have gained...
[March 8, 2001, 14:02]
UK firm claims patents on Internet downloading
Talkback Hey wait, I have a patent on the internet. I should go after everyone that uses it. I'm going to be rich, rich, rich! Get a clue!
[June 16, 2004, 12:51]
Canada: Downloading music is legal
Talkback The other day I went to a local music store to purchase a CD from an artist I have recently "discovered". The selling price on a single CD with 11 tracks was $26.99 Canadian plus the two graft fees (taxes).
[December 18, 2003, 20:05]
UK firm claims patents on Internet downloading
Talkback Its stupid that technology firms can look to their records and then claim patent to anything which resembles something similar to past creations regardless of how independant the innovation was.
[June 16, 2004, 0:35]
UK firm claims patents on Internet downloading
Talkback It would be very helpful to have application numbers of the patents mentioned in the article. Unfortunatelly I can not find them here: http://register.epoline.org/espacenet/ep/en/srch-reg.htm nor here: http://gauss.bacon.su.se/indices/
[June 15, 2004, 14:50]
UK firm claims patents on Internet downloading
Talkback This is funny as H*** as most of the protocals and original updating like those described we were doing back in the early 80's here in the states for people like McAffee at one of the software comapnies I used to work for.
[June 17, 2004, 22:23]
Canada: Downloading music is legal
Talkback Thanks for pointing out that ambiguous grammar. We've re-worded the offending sentence. Apologies to all Canadians!
[April 19, 2004, 22:25]
Canada: Downloading music is legal
Talkback I think that the music downloads is not the main issues for the losses from major music label.the reality is that when we normally used to buy a music album, most of the times we might boutgh the album because we liked just maybe 3 or 4 trackz!
[January 3, 2004, 21:28]
Canada: Downloading music is legal
Talkback Just an FYI, Canada is not one-tenth the SIZE of the USA! In fact we cover 9,984,670 kmē with five time zones! At 31 milllion we do have approx.one-tenth the US population!
[April 19, 2004, 18:42]
UK firm claims patents on Internet downloading
Talkback With the greatest respect to you posters commenting on patents, why not go find out what is involved when registering a patent. It ain't easy. You have to prove invention, it is not assumed. Patents cover regions and in this case it is a US patent...
[June 22, 2004, 17:05]
Canada: Downloading music is legal
Talkback i think that's good cuz then usa will realize that we have as much (or more) rights than them, being in usa, then we will get to do the same!
[February 23, 2004, 17:43]
UK firm claims patents on Internet downloading
Talkback In 1996/97 i created a software called DVC (Direct Version Check) for the Amiga computer platform called that allowed automativ downloading of updates for a software or the OS system files etc. Regarding BTG's patent claim!
[August 4, 2004, 21:35]
Canada: Downloading music is legal
Talkback I agree The goverment is pissed off cause there is a transaction going on the internet that they are not getting any $monies for.They outlawed Video Poker Games In this State. Yet U can go to the store and play the Lotto All You want.They got...
[January 21, 2004, 18:59]
