[Discuss] MP3 Players

[Adam Parkin]

Brian Burger wrote:
> Copying for personal use is perfectly legal in Canada. You don't even
> have to own the CD - copying library CDs or a friend's CDs that you've
> brought home is legal too.
> 
> That's why we pay the blank-tape and blank-CD-R levy, basically.
> 
> I've brought a lot of CDs home from the library, now all nicely ripped
> to my hard drive, all perfectly legal.
> 
> There are a couple of good FAQs on media copying in Canada out there -
> do a quick search.

It's been a bit since I looked at Canadian Copyright Law, but last time 
I checked there were plans to restrict this freedom so that while you 
could still copy freely, it would become illegal to make available works 
(the idea was to target P2P networks).  So the idea was that if you 
download a song of off BitTorrent that's legal, but the person who 
originally put the song up on BitTorrent was breaking the law.  Where it 
got a bit gray (from what I could see at the time) was what about if 
your friend came over to your house and made a copy of your CD?  He's 
legally safe, but could you be construed as "making available" 
copyrighted works?

Anybody know if these changes have happened or not?
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