A blog by a Music Consumer for Music Consumers
Greetings fellow music consumers and welcome to the buymusic.ca blog.
Here you will find various information relating to the purchase of music online and by mail, as well as sheet music, music instruments and memorabilia.
I will also be posting various commentaries and reviews in regards to these services and various related issues.
Enjoy.
If you want to watch several Brits goof around live, for charity, tune into Stickaid2010 from 7am Eastern today to 7am Eastern tomorrow.
Here is the event’s press release. Click Here To Donate.
Update — Congratulations Myles, Charlie and crew on raising over £19,000 during Stickaid2010.
According to an article published by D.I.S.H Information, James Cameron believes DVDs will eventually fade as a consumer product and will be replaced by downloads.
This may be true in the United States, causing Blockbuster to consider bankruptcy in that country. But we’re unfortunately still tied to the medium here in Canada because of the lack of affordable, unlimited internet.
Blaming piracy many of this country’s major internet providers have capped the file transfers their customers can make, even at times reducing these caps without the customer’s knowledge. And this is delaying the implementation and use of legal movie downloads in Canada.
Canadians face the possibility of additional fees when their transfer limits are surpassed, in some cases up to $2 per additional gig. But some of these internet providers apparently think their customers are stupid enough to believe they should pay more for less, when more legal material is being made available to them online.
Even now my internet provider is attempting to have me sign onto their new “deals” which will reduce my transfer limit from 60 to 25 gigs, using the premise that I would have faster downloads and possibly access to IPTV in the future. And of course these are promotional rates, which means I would be subjected to a significantly higher regular rate in a year, if not six months.
No thanks ! I’m going to stick to my DVD rentals.
Rolling Stone Magazine has openly criticized the record executives in the United States in a statement published in the magazine, according to Icanhasinternets.
In this statement, entitled “A Big Fat Thanks To Record Execs”, Rolling Stone Magazine states that because of their actions “millions of kids will stop wasting time listening to new music and seeking new bands”. And I tend to agree with them.
The internet has great potential as a promotional medium and heavy prosecution only hinders progress.
Yes, it isn’t perfect. But with a bit of work and investment it can become the new “radio” or “music television”.
Are you going to be in or around Kingston this long weekend ? Do you like guitar music ? Then you might be interested in attending the Canadian Guitar Festival, at the following location :
The festival features David Barrett and other independent guitarists.
According to The Canadian Press the Ontario Government, taxpayers in that province will continue to pay for the program over the next three months. But not at the cash.
Apparently the opposition also believe the current government is attempting to find ways to bury the unpopular tax, which was dropped by Canadian Tire stores in Ontario after this company had learned that they had overcharged customers.
HMV Digital Canada is now fully online. They had been beta testing their site for a while now and are now offering software that can sync music download purchases from the site into iTunes.
This site is of course Windows and Mac compatible.
The above is a 33 minute keynote address by Micheal Geist on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and the lack of transparency in regards to the international negotiations taking place in regard to this agreement.
The United States District Court, Southern District of New York, has rules in Youtube‘s favor, against Viacom’s claims.
The court ruled that Youtube had taken sufficient measures to protect the copyrights of Viacom, in accordance to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, this site qualifying for protection from prosecution according to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c).
The ruling can be found by clicking here. And don’t forget to visit my Youtube channel.
According to Digital Music News, Limewire will soon offer a legal Cloud-Based iTunes compatible music service to Americans.
This service will be available in late 2010 and will include an expansion of Limewire‘s store.
But Google will also be adding music downloads to their search engine later in the year according to the Wall Street Journal, of course enabling Americans to purchase music via their search engine.
Canadians will likely see a delay because our government is currently updating our Copyright Act with Bill C-32, whose implementation has been delayed by a scheduled adjournment of Parliament until September 30th, 2010.
The National Music Publishers’ Association has filed suit against Limewire on behalf of eight of the association’s members.
The NMPA allege that Limewire had facilitated copyright infringement through its web application, as stated in their press release, dated June 15th, 2010.
The Recording Industry Association of America had successfully sued Limewire and is currently trying to freeze it’s assets, as of June 10th, 2010.
The music publishers represented in the lawsuit are EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Bug Music, MPL Music Publishing, Peermusic, and The Richmond Organization.
