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Not quite. A lot of the expensive stuff comes out of the band's royalties. CD duplication and storage wouldn't, but that's pathetically cheap, and immaterial when discussing online downloading. (This is probably the main reason why we have such a churn 'n burn music industry in North America...

Actually, if you pick up a Toronto weekly, you'll discover that one of the biggest things in indie music right now are so called "vs." tracks, where they mix together songs from two different artists to create something new and interesting. This sort of stuff is getting a lot of attention...

Hmm... while I doubt that this will totally curtail downloading, it will probably prompt a shift to different services, at least until the legal aspects are sorted out. (The two stories give different impressions- one implies that the ISPs will fight, the other implies that they'll go along with...

Ranger: yep, theft is. Fortunately, this isn't theft. It's copyright infringement, which is an entirely different question. Theft deprives the original user of the use of the product- copying does not. It DOES threaten the revenue stream that copyright is supposed to protect, but it isn't theft...

K: Keep in mind that the government relies on that sort of thing in order to get through politically unpopular decisions that they'd otherwise support. (Witness Decrim, and Gay marriage). This is probably the #1 reason why the Charter exists in the first place- to deal with the gulf between...

And a fairly standard one- one simply "blurs the lines" by using a term that is technically correct but is associated with something much more frightening. Witness "Weapons of Mass Destruction". I imagine groups like COYOTE probably believe that they've got better things to do, as Toronto has...