Re: [dvd-discuss] Protecting Creative Works in a Digital Age (revised)

["Steve Hosgood" <steve(at)caederus.com>]

> Good comments. Submit them
>

Minus the following:

> > * Why not legalize the existing sources of content. Say, through
> > compulsary licenses, or a reasonable levy on residential bandwidth.
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> > Something similar to AHRA, which worked a decade ago.
>


So - all residential users of internet are assumed to be pirating material
and thus a *levy* is in order?

Didn't almost everyone on this list just decry the Canadian Govt's suggestion
of putting a levy on data storage devices?

A levy on bandwidth is just as daft!

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