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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anubis the Doomseer" data-source="post: 1013675" data-attributes="member: 12455">The international application of the law is suspect.  Take, for instance, Canada - in Canada all recordable media currently has an additional tax placed upon it.  There is a proposal to extend this tax to the sale of things like printers, toner, hard drives, mp3 players etc (the tax itself is about $1.00 per disk, or the proposed $10.00 for hardware).  The revenue from these taxes are collected in a special fund to defray the loss incurred by the various media conglomerates.  The amount was mutually agreed up on by all parties, meaning the RIAA and such agreed to these numbers.Technically this means that no one in Canada can be charged with illegal file sharing, because technically we have already "paid" for the product, and paid an amount agreed to by the large production/distribution companies, who did so with an understanding that the media may be used for the storage or use of files shared in a peer-to-peer network.  There is, therefore, no crime committed.  Technically you could get those people for actually sharing the files, and you can get them for making a profit from the sale of pirated material (because they have not purchased resale rights to the product).Our government (federal) is also not in a mood to make too many changes to the law, nor is it a huge priority for our law enforcement branches (cyberterrorism, kiddie porn, hate speech, identity theft and fraud are more pressing concerns).  Does this mean a file swapper in Canada is untouchable, no.  But the American court would have to make a hell of a case (or pay a judge enough) to overlook the measures taken by our national government.</blockquote>

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