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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 2721108" data-attributes="member: 18549">It's legal to download music in Canada.&nbsp; I'm not sure if this extends to other types of media, but we pay extra on every blank piece of media as a levy to be provided to the recording industry based on a government payment plan.&nbsp; If I go and download the complete works of Michael Jackson, nobody can say boo because it's legal.&nbsp; Even if it's not legal to download .pdfs of published works, I can see how people wouldn't decide there's a big difference between that and music, not caring about technicalities in the law that aren't well-known anyway.&nbsp; Canada's not the only country in which downloading music is legal, but the U.S. is, for some reason, the only location taken into account in these arguments (and if something's illegal in the U.S., it's somehow immoral for it to be legal somewhere else).&nbsp; I seem to remember reading that there are almost as many Canadians on the internet as there are Americans.&nbsp; We're just more wired.&nbsp; And then there's the whole rest of the world, who have varying laws of varying severity on the subject.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 2721108, member: 18549"] It's legal to download music in Canada. I'm not sure if this extends to other types of media, but we pay extra on every blank piece of media as a levy to be provided to the recording industry based on a government payment plan. If I go and download the complete works of Michael Jackson, nobody can say boo because it's legal. Even if it's not legal to download .pdfs of published works, I can see how people wouldn't decide there's a big difference between that and music, not caring about technicalities in the law that aren't well-known anyway. Canada's not the only country in which downloading music is legal, but the U.S. is, for some reason, the only location taken into account in these arguments (and if something's illegal in the U.S., it's somehow immoral for it to be legal somewhere else). I seem to remember reading that there are almost as many Canadians on the internet as there are Americans. We're just more wired. And then there's the whole rest of the world, who have varying laws of varying severity on the subject. [/QUOTE]

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