They're trying to preserve a long obsolete business model through the use of the courts and through legislation.

The next time some right-winger talks about how corporations are great "risk takers" and the terrible "socialist nanny state" you can throw this in their face.

I resent like hell having to pay for recording my own work or mailing a 'talking letter' to my old mom.

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The levies are intended to compensate rights holders for lost royalties from private copying of music, images and moves.

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Originally posted by radiorahim:

The next time some right-winger talks about how corporations are great "risk takers" and the terrible "socialist nanny state" you can throw this in their face.

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At what point did you ever figure that right-wingers like these levy's or the industries that promote them?

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Then I bought some of the same songs on cassettes.

And after that many of them again on CDs.

For years I have been paying a levy on media to record my own work.

Isn't this a bit of 'overcompensation'?

Whatever it is, it helped me rationalise my downloading of music (when I still did it; don't do it anymore for a number of reasons).

We pay these people, who are often mutli-millionaires, again and again.

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Originally posted by radiorahim:
My understanding is that the Canadian Copyright Board hasn't even figured out a "mechanism" to compensate artists for the money they've been collecting from these levies all these years.

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BTW, the mechanism they presently have is called "nagging." If you nag them, they pay you an amount directly related to how large a corporation you are.

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At what point did you ever figure that right-wingers like these levy's or the industries that promote them?

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C'mon Heywood, read the subtext: Next time someone on the right goes on about 'welfare bums' and how corporations are great at taking risks on new ideas, one can point to this decision as an example of:

- corporate welfare, paying a corporation or group of corporations to keep doing business 'the old way' without them having to have their ickle boat rocked in any way.
- Lack of initiative on the part of a group of corporations to step up and deal with the new demands of the digital age, digital media, and the copyright issues involved, and instead them just sitting back and trying to force the world back into 'the good way, the old way, the way that means we don't have to do things different'.

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Originally posted by aRoused:

C'mon Heywood, read the subtext: Next time someone on the right goes on about 'welfare bums' and how corporations are great at taking risks on new ideas, one can point to this decision as an example of:

- corporate welfare, paying a corporation or group of corporations to keep doing business 'the old way' without them having to have their ickle boat rocked in any way.
- Lack of initiative on the part of a group of corporations to step up and deal with the new demands of the digital age, digital media, and the copyright issues involved, and instead them just sitting back and trying to force the world back into 'the good way, the old way, the way that means we don't have to do things different'.

Nothing at all in there about conservatives liking the recording industry or CD levies.

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But when corporate execs screw up they see nothing wrong with running to the big bad socialist nanny state to bail them out.