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Canada iTMS November 30?

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What work does it take to put ITMS online? just take the US' Interface change the money to canaidan and your done.
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First, there's a completely different set of people to work out the distribution rights and payment agreements with. And then, there is (I bloody hope) all of the Canadian content to add to the library.
 
Limited Content

Napster and Puretracks do not have a lot of music online. Especially when it comes to Christian tracks. iTunes in the States has tons of these. I think even when it does launch in Canada it's only going to have 300,000 verses the UK's 700,000 and US' 1,000,000. For some reason Canadian labels seem to be especially stingy. With downloading legal here in Canada you would think they would want all their content online so they could at least make something!
 
rodnarms said:
I called the Canadian Apple Store to ask if iTunes Store was being launched in Canada today. The representitive said that he hadn't received an e-mail that said it would. He did not seem to know much of anything about it.

I hate to say it guys, but it looks like we were lied too. This sucks.

No store today.
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Don't worry about them not knowing, Apple keeps them out of the loop on purpose. Otherwise the emails might find themselves here...!
 
No levy on DVDs

stcanard said:
Incremental backups of my laptop produces ~ 6GB per month. Until recently that was a lot of CDs per year, on which I was paying a tax for music.

Now it's not nearly as many DVDs, but the tax is proportionately bigger.
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Hi - if you're paying extra for DVD-Rs or DVD-RWs, someone is ripping you off, since there is no levy on them.

This is from the Copyright board's website:

"Today's decision freezes all existing private copying levies at their current levels. As a result, the current levies of 29¢ on audio cassette tapes of 40 minutes or longer (no levy applies to tapes of shorter length), 21¢ on CD-Rs and CD-RWs and 77¢ on CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio and MiniDiscs will remain in effect until the end of 2004.

The Board also sets for the first time a levy on non-removable memory permanently embedded in digital audio recorders (such as MP3 players) at $2 for each recorder with a memory capacity of up to 1 Gigabyte (Gb), $15 for each recorder with memory capacity of more than 1 Gb and up to 10 Gbs, and $25 for each recorder with memory capacity of more than 10 GBs.

The Board denied the Canadian Private Copying Collective's (CPCC) request to establish a levy on blank DVDs, removable memory cards and removable micro hard drives. It finds that the evidence available at this time does not clearly demonstrate that these recording media are ordinarily used by individuals for the purpose of copying music."
 
macbing said:
I'd like that aren't available on the P2P networks and because it'll be more reliable and I can finally get music that won't sound like it's been encoded by a twelve year old.
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What is it with people having beef against Twelve Year Olds

Just joking
I totally agree with you, it's so much more convenient to just buy it to download.
 
I'd like to remind everyone that the day isn't over yet and let's keep that hate mail for another day (tomorrow?) ;)
 
coldspot said:
Steve Jobs sucks. He is a liar. I know you hate to hear it, but Bill Gates is VERY more competent than Jobs as a CEO.
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Steve Jobs is the CEO of 2 companies.

How many companies is Bill the CEO of? I'll give you a hint, its less than one. :rolleyes:
 
Lazulia said:
I'd like to remind everyone that the day isn't over yet and let's keep that hate mail for another day (tomorrow?) ;)
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Hold on a second, Apple could well introduce itms canada at around west coast time. ;) :)


They have a lot of time left, even if they release it at 11:59:59 pm November 30, 2004 there are still good on they promise. :D ROTF
 
coldspot said:
Steve Jobs sucks. He is a liar. I know you hate to hear it, but Bill Gates is VERY more competent than Jobs as a CEO.
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ROTFLMAO, this is a rather funny comment. :)


They could just well be other delaying factors its Canada we miss out of many things here maybe its our well to do dollar as of recent. Steve J will now hold off itms canada for another 2 years till the canadian dollar sinks a bit. :D
 
DavidLeblond said:
Steve Jobs is the CEO of 2 companies.

How many companies is Bill the CEO of? I'll give you a hint, its less than one. :rolleyes:
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ROTF, what is with all the hatred in regards to Steve J or Bill G. I have never really understood this. Nope of them are your friends or enemies, do they call you to they house for christmas or wish you a happy new year, do they even know you exist? LOL

Both companies and CEO's are in the game to make money plain and simple I doubt they are giving you a cut from they profits. :rolleyes:

You don't see the CEO of SUN and the CEO of HP being matched up together. LOL. People get waaaaay to emotional these days, could be the food and water. :D
 
coldspot said:
Haha. You're so funny! Be the Microsoft CEO is equivalent to be the CEO of 10 "Apples". :p
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Actuall Bill G, has been the standing and active CEO of MS far longer than Steve J of Apple. If you read history :)


You cannot compare both. :) Relax folks, we will get itms canada Dec 01, 2009. :)
 
Well not long to go now... Maybe someone should tell Steve to hurry up or else it will be Christmas before this happens... (poor sense of humor due to night of 28C heat - down from 40C+ during yesterday - and no hints of iTunes MS Australia...
 
coldspot said:
Haha. You're so funny! Be the Microsoft CEO is equivalent to be the CEO of 10 "Apples". :p
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I thought you were talking about Bill Gates.

Last I checked, he wasn't the CEO of Microsoft. Hasn't been for awhile.

This guy is the CEO of Microsoft.

edit: By the way, Jobs is only the CEO of one "Apple." The other company he's the CEO of is a "Pixar." :p
 
Raid said:
Mr. Basskin actually posted to this forum in another thread when discussions were underway. He seemed genuinely interested in seeing a Canadian iTMS, so I'm willing to give him the benefit of not immediately jumping down his throat before we get the whole story.
In fact how about you thank him if the iTMS actually arrives?
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David Basskin may be well meaning, but last April he told AppleInsider that he was in negotiations with Apple, and blamed Apple for the slow pace, but recently his story (as quoted in the Globe & Mail) has shifted to negotiations having only recently begun (with a sort of implicit 'don't rush us'). Maybe Apple's playing hardball, or perhaps they're being obstinate, but the music industry has a far longer history of disturbing behaviour when it comes to digital music formats. Mr. Basskin's statements are either confused or intended to confuse. In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, it's hard not to assign most of the blame for the delay to the CMRRA (and by extension, Mr. Basskin).

In any case, it's past 4pm here on the east coast, (almost 5pm in Newfoundland), and in the unlikely event that they're opening iTMS Canada today then they're definitely doing it wrong. It's well past time to make it onto the early news (for something like an online music store), and I doubt many papers would pick up the story even if they started right now. I'm very much inclined to believe that the CMRRA has prevented iTMS from starting up as planned.
 
macbing said:
Hi - if you're paying extra for DVD-Rs or DVD-RWs, someone is ripping you off, since there is no levy on them.
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Yup, apparently I was in error. I didn't realize the request for DVD's had been turned down.

That's okay, once they finish polishing the levy on all copyrighted works that do not explicitly say 'Free for distribution' on them, they'll make up for it on web page charges alone[1]

[1] Note, for those not following the proposed changes to Candian Copyright Law, fueled in part by the hysteria surrounding the mis-represented P2P decision, this is not a joke
 
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