Canon, money compensation to artist.

Here, in my country as in many others, we have laws to protect copyrights and we respect and appreciate them. But in the digital revolution this rights are becoming a new way to increase the annual income of some people in a suspicious way.

Musicians, composers and producers now receive a compensation for the CD's we buy, that is what we call "canon". So for all the things that we burn in our CD's whereas it's music or not, we pay about 22% of the total retail price of a CD. That's a lot of money, and even more than the taxes. The say that this canon it's to compensate the money loss that piracy makes. Considering the sales, such percentage is not a compensation is a high profitable business. As a result, We are fighting against this measure but it's like fighting a titan, unlikely to win.

I understand that there are rights to preserve but things are getting to far. And the music industry is draining our money using every thing that they have. I hope that we can change this.