Dropping a disc is against the law

The Hour blog is running a guerrilla marketing campaign called Operation Disc Drop. Viewers are encouraged to burn a CD of their favourite music, label it “DISC DROP – cbc.ca/thehour,” leave it in a public place, and then report back to the Hour blog to tell everyone where the CD is. If you find a CD, you’re to report to the Hour blog and tell them about it.

Sounds like fun. And I hate to be a killjoy, but it’s illegal.

It’s legal to copy music to a CD for personal use. That’s covered by the private-copying levy. Distribution of these CDs, however, is very illegal.

So let this be a lesson to you kids out there. Be careful what that funny man on TV tells you to do. He might not always have your best interests at heart.

5 Comments

  • Jenuine says:

    Hahaha! – Anon 5:19
    By any chance are you a member of BCMP?
    ; )
    After all, one could also argue that it too, is purely “medicinal”.

  • Anonymous says:

    I’d argue that the person burning is not making money through this means of distribution. Stop being such a wet tea towel.

  • Allan says:

    Teenagers with music to burn.
    It’s quite amazing what “official” CBC blogs are allowed to do, isn’t it?
    I told you there’s no parental supervision at The Hour.

  • Anonymous says:

    Seriously? Like this is going to improve his ratings, status, like whatever? A bit juvi, no? Maybe he’s getting too old to know what the younger, not obviously him, is into….. and to think they cancelled Street Cents!

  • Anonymous says:

    stop snitchin’

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