The easiest answer is that we had some studies done that were economic studies, a study done that was on international copyright and whether or not this would fit into the WIPO restrictions, and we also had a technological study done. The technological study we did determined that file sharing can't be stopped. Remember, we're talking about file sharing, we're not talking about copying. The private copy levy deals quite effectively with copying, but what we're talking about is file sharing. File sharing is one to many, if you will; that 's probably the best way to describe it.
Essentially, over the three and a half years that we've been talking about this proposal, we've talked to every stakeholder we could possibly talk to, including the Canadian Recording Industry Association, who immediately said no, this is crazy. Having said that, over time, we've incorporated changes in this model in order to accommodate consumer groups. PIAC, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, is very supportive of our proposal, the Union des consommateurs is supportive of our proposal, and so is CIPPIC at the University of Ottawa. On top of that, we've also talked to independent record labels and music publishers, and although their associations have difficulty supporting such a thing, we have individual music publishers and labels that are interested.
We think, ultimately, that the bottom line is that this is dealing with a broken part of the industry. It's been broken for some time. It really needs to be addressed. How are we going to address it? Are we going to continue trying to stop it?
I want to be clear that we also want to ensure that we're not talking about websites that are commercial enterprises making money off of people's music. Those people should be dealt with in the way the law should deal with them. But what we are talking about is individual file sharing. That's really what we're getting at.
I don't know if that answers your question.