3.06.2006
Canucks: Nation of Music Crooks
When they're not growing weed, playing hockey, or attending gay weddings, apparently Canadians are busy stealing music more than anyone else in the world, aye. And almost a decade of theft is hurting the music selling biz in Canada. Oh noes!According to an article in Variety, music sales in Canada dropped 4% last year. This dip is just part of a 10-year decline that the Canadian Recording Industry Assn. blames on illegal music downloading.
So why are the Canucks all crooks? Probably because Canada hasn't updated their copyright legislation yet to cover digital music. As a result, it has the highest online piracy rate per capita in the world, according to the Intl. Federation of the Phonographic Industry; the CRIA says 1.6 billion music files are swapped annually in Canada.
Worldwide legal digital revenues have jumped from zero to 6% of record company revenues globally in the last two years. In sharp contrast, digital revenues make-up less than 1% of record company sales in Canada.
As long as it isn't illegal, Canucks are happy just downloading music for free.
Pimpin' Thoughts:
Canada is only #1 because the theiving Chinese cut themselves off from the rest of the internet.
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Canada has a CD-R tax/levy that gets paid to the recording industry, so why call them pirates? The artists, et al. get paid even if the CD-R's aren't used for music.
In the US, we have no such tax, except for the few "music only" CD-R's (who really buys those anyway?). What we do have is the RIAA breathing down our necks and treating us like criminals, even though their music sales over all have been going up. Sure, CD sales are sliding, but that money is being shifted to iTunes, Rhapsody, et al.. Yet, the Recording cartel says they lose some huge and imaginary amount of money to piracy. The money isn't lost, it's reallocated to online music purchases, which makes more sense. Considering I can now legally download my favorite songs, and leave the rest of the crap normally on the CD out and not pay one cent for it.
Yes, I can see why the RIAA is so against online distribution of music. They can't charge you $15USD for maybe 2 good songs, otherwise known as screwing the consumer.
In the US, we have no such tax, except for the few "music only" CD-R's (who really buys those anyway?). What we do have is the RIAA breathing down our necks and treating us like criminals, even though their music sales over all have been going up. Sure, CD sales are sliding, but that money is being shifted to iTunes, Rhapsody, et al.. Yet, the Recording cartel says they lose some huge and imaginary amount of money to piracy. The money isn't lost, it's reallocated to online music purchases, which makes more sense. Considering I can now legally download my favorite songs, and leave the rest of the crap normally on the CD out and not pay one cent for it.
Yes, I can see why the RIAA is so against online distribution of music. They can't charge you $15USD for maybe 2 good songs, otherwise known as screwing the consumer.
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why does anybody give a shit? becuase you are too preoccupied with being consumers as your main activity. so occupied we now care who consumes the most. maybe there is more file sharing in canada becuase the average level of computer literacy is higher, and the digital infrasturcture (cable and phone network) for broadband is a lot more widspread.
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