Copyright infringement - Downloading Free Movies or Music In Canada?

I don't know if any new laws have been passed in Canada for this or not (I'm in the US, and we don't much news like this from Canada), but last I heard, you could download music as long as you did not distribute it. There is an extra tax on recordable audio material (CD's, cassette tapes, etc.) that goes to offset the loss of sales for this.

However, you need to understand how torrents work. Using a torrent will be illegal. Why? Because you are contributing to the uploading process as soon as you start downloading, and any torrent client I have seen will not let you change this until AFTER you completed the download. But while the download is occurring, you are providing what you have currently downloaded of that file to others to download. Therefore, you have distributed the file, even for just a short time, and have violated the law.

80. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the act of reproducing all or any substantial part of

(a) a musical work embodied in a sound recording,

(b) a performer’s performance of a musical work embodied in a sound recording, or

(c) a sound recording in which a musical work, or a performer’s performance of a musical work, is embodied onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer’s performance or the sound recording.

Limitation

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the act described in that subsection is done for the purpose of doing any of the following in relation to any of the things referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) to (c):

(a) selling or renting out, or by way of trade exposing or offering for sale or rental;

(b) distributing, whether or not for the purpose of trade;

(c) communicating to the public by telecommunication; or

(d) performing, or causing to be performed, in public.

*EDIT* - This law is ONLY for music, and not movies or anything else.

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I don't know what Wikipedia page you have been reading (please provide the link) but you cannot (legally), download music, movies, games or other files even for personal use, even if they are free. Not in 2011, not in 2012 not even in 1 AD.

EDIT

Thanks for the link, I was unaware of that copyright rule.

Movies, games, photos etc (everything except music) cannot be downloaded (legally).

As for music (I have only done a little research & will edit again if I find any better info) I stand by my original answer (read the 2nd paragraph under the heading "Music Recordings" of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_Cana... )

Under Canadian copyright law you can only make copy's of music for private use onto a CD. DVD, (if you can even find one) a cassette. Copy's cannot be made to a computer HD or MP3 player

Ok download Bittorrent. then when you want a song type in the songs name on google for example: Go on Google then type the song like ( Cha-ching torrent) then down load it from internet and it will appear on bittorent. Then if you have itunes add song to library.

It's completelly illegal, but i still support it. In Sweden file piracy just recently became an official religion.

Ehm..

Check here http://bitly.com/1lhq5CU if you want to get Muzik for free

You should try it

Best of luck!