That headline might sound misleading, but it's actually not. The Songwriters Association of Canada (better known as "SAC") wants to charge Internet users $5/mo. in order to compensate artists for music that's illegally downloaded. The reason I say the headline is not misleading is because really, what SAC would be doing is charging all Internet users $5/mo., whether they download music online or not.
Wow.
Just wow.
It's hard for me to formulate adiatribe response to this that doesn't include lots of profanity.
Just wow.
It's hard for me to formulate a
This is exactly like receiving a speeding ticking before you even leave your driveway, and it's exactly as unfair. I don't download music illegally, but if SAC actually got away with making this asinine surcharge happen, I would start pirating music immediately. With gusto. I would be the terror of the Seven Seas. Hey you bastards, I've paid the fine, I might as well do the crime!
Does anybody in the music industry actually think before they speak?
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Does that mean I get to charge Dell for waiting in the queue for support?
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It would appear not. Surely there should at least be an age dispensation? If one is too old or one's musical tastes do not lend themselves to downloading one should not have to pay the fine/fee?
The problem is that the penalty ($5) is too low to do anything to prevent the problem and, like you pointed out, will likely just add to it. Now if SOCAN were to propose to burn the house of everyone who used the internet (after pillaging, of course), then they might be able to do something about it. There may be other moral and/or legal issues involved, but the courts can sort them out.
Don't bet against their ability to indeed enforce such a fee. For quite some time there was a similar fee on blank DVDs, which I rather resented paying since I was stealing images, not music, at the time.
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