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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scott-fs" data-source="post: 1563776" data-attributes="member: 5714">Canada likewise is a signatory to the Berne Convention.  Earlier in this thread I mentioned that in Canada it is quite legal to download (it's always been legal to download since copyright infringement (which this is) is all about distribution, and not theft (as in taking something which isn't yours)).  Recently the court's have decided that placing something in a folder that happens to be accessible to the outside world is not infringement as long as you do not promote that it is there.  Once you start advertising that it is there (through a downloads website, for instance), you are infringing on the copyright.If it matters, we in Canada (as well as atleast 24 other countries including most G-7 and European Union countries) pay for piracy indirectly by having a levy charged on recordable media and non-removable memory in digital audio recorders that goes to an organization which then distributes it to music copyright holders.  The only problem with this is that it doesn't take into account the many other copyright holders that should receive these levies.  Software (video games, etc) and movies, most notably, since in my experience cds are used more often to make copies of games, programs, and movies, rather than as music cds.I guess all these writers are also missing out on a revenue stream, since putting illegal copies of products to give to someone else has also been one use of blank cds.Currently the levy in Canada is $0.21 per cdr.  You can get blank cdrs for about $30/100, which means that over two-thirds the cost to purchase blank cds is going to copyright holders.  For non-removable memory, it's $25/device.Below is a good article that I think everyone should read.<a href="http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml" target="_blank">Canadian Copyright Levy Info</a> There is also something very interesting as well.  Apparently it is legal to borrow a copy of a cd from a friend, make a copy for yourself, and use that for personal uses, giving the original back to your friend.  You can't copy his cd for his use, even if he owns the original, but you don't need to have an original for it to be legal.On the other hand, don't consider this site to be legal advice.One other interesting note, the CPCC (organization in charge of collecting levies), had proposed a levy of $21/GB for mp3 players.  The site gives an example of Apple's 40BG Ipod, which sells for $754 CDN.  If the levy had gone through $840 would be added to the Ipods price.  The CPCC later revised their proposed levy, but you'd still be paying a levy of $150.  In a final revision in December 2003, they decided that the levy would be $25 for a device that can record more than 10GB of data.</blockquote>

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