Seth Jayson misses the point or, perhaps worse, misses the real reasons to criticize a recent Copyright Board of Canada decision. Among other things, Canadian consumers will pay up to $25 extra for an MP3 player, money which will be distributed to Canadian songwriters. Jayson missed the big point in that ruling which was: Downloading tunes on to your hard drive in Canada is legal. Let me repeat: Downloading is legal. Why, even the president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association is in today's Globe and Mail, saying only that downloading is contentious. When you have the recording industry even allowing that there is room for interpretation on issues it has all along seen as black and white, well, then you have something, my friend. So that whole "downloading is legal" thing was the new new thing out of the Copyright Board ruling but it's old news that making a single copy of your recordings for your personal use is legal in Canada. You can't say that about the U.S. If you want to make a copy of the CD you already bought to store at the cottage, that's just fine if you live in Canada but you'll get sued if you do that too often in the U.S. One of the reasons such copying is legal in Canada is that we pay a levy on blank media, now to include some MP3 players. So is an extra $25 -- and that's a one-time only levy when you buy an MP3 player -- such a bad tradeoff for an environment in which buyers of music are given reasonable limits on the types of private copying they can do? I don't know. But I do know if I was a columnist for The Motley Fool I might take a look at the entire decision of the Copyright Board of Canada and not just one small part of it.