'Canada Is a Video Piracy Hotspot While Brazil Sees Piracy in Decline'

Re:'Canada Is a Video Piracy Hotspot While Brazil Sees Pirac... by unintendedcons on Sunday January 21, 2024 @10:16AM (#39079177)

Canada charges a piracy tax on ALLL HARD DRIVES AND STORAGE MEDIA.

It's not piracy, we already paid!

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Re:'Canada Is a Video Piracy Hotspot While Brazil Sees Pirac... by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Sunday January 21, 2024 @12:06PM (#39080280)

Oh they do that garbage in Canada too? I thought i was able to escape it by leaving Italy

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Re:'Canada Is a Video Piracy Hotspot While Brazil Sees Pirac... by xethos on Monday January 22, 2024 @12:54AM (#39086754)

> Canada's current private copying levies are as follows: $0.29 per unit for CD-R, CD-RW, CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio disks [0]

The Canadian government does not. You likely haven't paid the tax in the last decade, if ever.

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Re:'Canada Is a Video Piracy Hotspot While Brazil Sees Pirac... by unintendedcons on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @02:56AM (#39187459)

Thank you for this correction.

While it changes my understanding of the legal facts, my feelings about piracy remain the same. Funny, that.

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