Despite all my rants long ago and long exhausted on the relevance of copyright in the recording industry, I still insist it is wrong to steal. Yes, we all know by now that downloading mp3s in Canada is still mostly legal, surrounded by the marginal and unchallenged protection provided by the small copyright levy that we all pay on our blank media. VHS, CDR, DVDR, and CompactFlash — they all rack up a small percentage of their cost and send it on over to the good folks who administrate this kind of thing. I trust they are doing their jobs. I won’t bother questioning it.

On the other hand, the whole intended follow-through behind those rants, was the hints that:

a) why doesn’t somebody do something about this,

b) why are we not doing something about this, and

c) now, here is someone who is doing something about this.

PureTracks.com, despite their ill-chosen format of .WMV, is a Canadian company selling legally downloadable music from their website. Ninety-nice cents (Canadian) per song, or ten buck per album. Support these guys. Buy some tracks. This is the next step in the fight against the harsh realities of the music industry. Sure you can get the same song for free on Kazaa, but these guys are doing exactly what we asked them to do — and all promised we would support if it ever arrived: they are selling cheap, customizable music, and doing it legally.