Canadian Songwriters Want to Legalize File-Sharing

Blaise Alleyne, an ex-member of the Songwriters Association of Canada, expressed its point of view on the outfit’s suggestion to legalize non-commercial P2P file-sharing through a broadband provider levy, and how it became the catalyst of debates, most of which advocated the ideas that file-sharing should be embraced, that filtering and lawsuits aren’t the way out, and so on.

Since then, the suggestion has changed by favouring a business to business approach, with the real opt-out option for both musicians and subscribers of participating Internet service providers. This