Canadian music watchdog wants levy on Internet providers

Dexter

OTTAWA -- An association representing music composers and publishers is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to force Internet providers to pay millions in royalties for allowing music files to be shared on the Internet.

SOCAN, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, which helps protect the copyrighted works of music artists by collecting royalties and distributing the money, will argue its case before the Supreme Court tomorrow.

The association wants a blanket tariff implemented to allow it to collect as much as 10 per cent of the annual revenues of Canada's Internet service providers.

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These asshats want to make the ISP's pay millions just because they provide access to file sharing to users. The assumption here is that every internet customer is a music pirate, therefore they should all pay higher connection costs.

:shakehead :shakehead :shakehead

SimGuy

Protect this! :middlefinger:

My money. Your music. Being a poor college student, I'll always find a way to get free music, whether Internet based or not.

**** you SOCAN.

BlackHawk

I doubt it'll fly. Can be argued dozen of ways.

Josh-

Lets put into a diff prospective. Lets say you have given someone else a #2 pencil for a test. They didn't pay for it. Therefore all school districts should be sued for a million dollars for not preventing it a pencil to be given to another student.

Its just that. A music file is nothing nowadays, billions of songs are shared each day. It isn't the ISP's right to prevent it. Further, its not there problem. And why does canada even care?

-.- to you Canada.

Josh-

Also, in another prespective.

Lets say some drugs were smuggled into the U.S. The U.S. did not prevent it, even though they try. Therefore, the U.S. should be sued for billions of dollars, in order to make our taxes go up.