[Sussex] File sharing legal in Canada!

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Fri Apr 2 13:40:33 UTC 2004


Andrew

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:19:13PM +0100, Andrew Guard wrote:
> Well quite simply all say no-chance in hell that would be come law.  The
> reasons why think this are simple.  Most of the work do in Open Source code
> or work's are outside UK justification.  Now if government was going do
> something as so silly as this then why not tax the smartions or all other
> issues where people do something and expect nothing back in return.

No country can claim to do most of the F/OSS work.  The US can claim to 
have the large number, but they don't (last time I looked) produce half
of the stuff available.

The last time I checked it was about:

   1/3 - North America.
   1/3 - Europe.
   1/3 - Rest of the World.

Steve




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