Don’t worry if you don’t have a computer, I’m sure the MAFIAA will find a way to sue you anyway. Maybe they’ll get Jim Prentice to do it for them.
Do you happen to know anyone who has managed to fill even a 4GB iPod with purely purchased music (even transferred from CDs they bought)? Who knows, maybe it will become a crime to move songs from your CDs to your iPod after this bill passes? IF it passes.
And if you ever go over the border, when (if) you come back home, the custom copyright police will be sure to poke through your iPod and laptop for any files that don’t have a digital signature from an authorized music distributor. Next, watch for the Conservatives to ban street music, lest you get entertainment for free. OK, I’m exaggerating. Or, am I?
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Hat tip to Jeff
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A little math for you:
MP3 song ~= 5MB
4GB ~= 4,000MB
4000 / 5 = 800 songs
song ~= $1 iTunes price
$800 to fill a midrange iPod minus some room left for free podcasts and FREE videos. Does that actually happen? Do people actually spend $500+ on a music collection that can’t easily be moved to another device?
$500 / ~$25 Walmart CD price = 20 CDs. Oh, so it’s not unreasonable I suppose, except that with CDs they have a lifetime from 2 - 100 years, while an iPod might last 5 years.
So, keep in mind that if the max is $500 per infringement as the rumour suggests, what’s to stop the CRIA (MAFIAA) from going after someone who *might* have a 800 * $500 goldmine in their pocket? Did that person with the full iPod inflict even a significant FRACTION of $400,000 worth of damages on artists? Artists who have told the MAFIAA lobby to shove it?
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Lore_Weaver | 04-Jun-08 at 8:22 am | Permalink
This isn’t going to happen. They crafted this bill to fail.
stageleft | 04-Jun-08 at 8:54 am | Permalink
Ya see, that’s why I stuck to my little CD Walkman thingie….. it wasn’t the fact that that I was unable or too lazy to figure out how to load and unload a digital music device, or even that I was too cheap to buy one - I knew something like this was coming
Saskboy | 04-Jun-08 at 9:54 am | Permalink
One can hope, I guess, Lore_W.
Stageleft, they’ll find a way to get you, and your little walkman too *evil cackle*. Analog avoider!
stageleft | 04-Jun-08 at 10:09 am | Permalink
I doubt it Saskboy, in addition to not having a digital music device I don’t travel into the states (ever), rarely leave the country (there are so many great places to see right here), and when I do the last thing I’m interested in packing is my laptop :-)
Lore_Weaver | 04-Jun-08 at 10:36 am | Permalink
There’s too much dissenting opinion in Parliament for this to pass, and the industry caucus is very non-partisan. Any bill that gets put up now is more of a “statement of intent”. There are a few Conservative members who think this is a good way to go, and several more who disagree.
This is more of a lead up to the policy convention, in my opinion, than it is legislation designed to pass.
Anything that gets put on the order paper now is doomed to fail, either due to a fall election, or proroguing of Parliament. (This may likely include bull C-484 and maybe even C-51)
Roy Harrold | 04-Jun-08 at 2:06 pm | Permalink
What a great and totally appropriate contraction: MAFIAA.
Time to switch to enjoying and supporting non-corporate, self-marketed independent artists like Neil Cicierega:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfsb5HUFMQ0
Zhu | 04-Jun-08 at 7:36 pm | Permalink
I just wish we could find a solution that benefits both artists and consumers. But so far, no one cares about both of the above…
I don’t have an Ipod though. ;-)
Saskboy | 04-Jun-08 at 9:49 pm | Permalink
That’s a straaange video Roy :-)
Zhu, I care about artists making money. I think the Musiccreators members do too, and they are right that the American DMCA sue-happy method is turning consumers against artists. It becomes even more cool to download, just to thumb ones nose at “the man”. And The Man is certainly the ones writing our laws.
themusicgod1 | 05-Jun-08 at 1:10 am | Permalink
Stageleft: I find anything that old tends to break down, unfortunately. I’ve gotten to the point where I’m gutting cd players for their parts…
Saskboy, nevermind 4GB; 4GB is just what we are capable of today. Think 25 years from now. We may very well have 4TB iPods by that point, so instead of 800*500, it’ll be more like 800,000*500. That’s a hell of a lot more lucrative. Assuming we don’t run into planck-size problems before then, of course.q
Roy Harrold | 05-Jun-08 at 5:24 am | Permalink
Strange video? Ben Bernanke is a straaaange Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve. “Who’s yer daddy, America? Ben Bernanke?” lol!
So what about all those people with walls of cassette tapes & VHS tapes of materials that aren’t really backup copies of a legally purchased product? We, ooops I mean THEY, are off the hook ’cause the technology is out of date? What about people who acquired a zillion MB of materials in the early days of Napster & Limewire and then “retired” with all their acquisition dreams fulfilled? Why are they safe but their kids are not?