Bill C-11 committee  It's not a tax. I want a commercially negotiated royalty.

Bill C-11 committee  If you want to continue calling it a tax, go ahead. I'm fascinated by this.

Bill C-11 committee  The manufacturer would have the decision to pass on the cost or absorb it.

Bill C-11 committee  Correct.

Bill C-11 committee  They're a form of it, yes.

Bill C-11 committee  As I said in my remarks, I'd rather not see a levy; I'd rather see a free marketplace where the products, services, and companies I was referring to were liable for the infringement, and then we could make a deal. There was a fantastic example of a free-market equivalent of a le

Bill C-11 committee  Yes.

Bill C-11 committee  The impact on the collective system will be serious. The revenues from the other sources are declining as it is, so combined it will really undermine the collective system. The collective licensing system is actually extremely helpful and invaluable to the licensees because it's

Bill C-11 committee  No. They could just take it to the hard drive and copy it.

Bill C-11 committee  I don't know the details of his testimony, but it's not that hard to copy a hard drive. The point is that in discussions with the broadcasters, I'm well aware that most of them are intending to do whatever it takes to avoid playing the royalty.

Bill C-11 committee  No, I don't, because, as I said, there are different rights. You know, I have a cable connection that I get from one of the big brand-name Canadian cable companies. If I want to add the Leafs to that, I have to pay separately. It's a new bundle, a new bundle of rights or elements

Bill C-11 committee  I believe that, first of all, it's not the rate that has tripled, or doubled, or whatever it has done; it's the increasing amount of repertoire that qualifies. They didn't used to pay on all the repertoire, and now they're paying on more of the repertoire that they use.

Bill C-11 committee  That process and resource would be required to avoid paying the royalty. My advice would be to pay the royalty.

Bill C-11 committee  Well, most of the creators in the music industry are individuals in small businesses, and the cost of getting a major telecom to do that kind of work could easily be prohibitive for them. They would not be able to do it. As it is now, there's a similar system on YouTube, and we'r

Bill C-11 committee  It’s the free riders I was referring to, the people who profit parasitically from piracy. In the ISP situation, they're selling bandwidth to people who are pirating music and movies and other copyrighted materials; that's how they profit. They're not, by the way, dumb pipes; they