Tony Langdon : nathanael culver wrote:

>  nc> There's an artist I like who recently released a new album. I would
>  nc> have bought it except he put all the videos up at his Youtube channel.
>  nc> So I just downloaded them instead. While I'm pretty sure downloading is
>  nc> against YT's TOC, I think it's all legal.
>
> Hmm, That would probably be considered equivalent to the practice of
> recording songs off the radio, which we all did in our youth - technically
> illegal, but everyone did it.

If I recall correctly, the practice of recording from radio was ruled perfectly
fine, for personal use.  To recognize the matter, a tarrif was placed on blank
tapes and CDs.

This site has some historical info and prices about that:

http://www.cpcc.ca/en/the-cpcc/private-copying-tariff

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