It isn't only the music industry that enjoyed commercial success in Canada in 2006. The video game industry – both hardware and software – enjoyed record sales with no signs that current Canadian copyright law somehow impedes that commercial success.
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January 19, 2007
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It’s much much harder to copy a video game than a CD. with every generation of console, copying games gets harder. The failure of both CD and DVD (to a lesser degree) might have been that they were allowed to become standard computer media. I’ve never seen blank nintendo cartiges for sale…