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Canada hasn’t updated copyright legislation to cover digital music. That’s why - according to the Intl. Federation of the Phonographic Industry - it has the highest online piracy rate per capital in the world; the CRIA says 1.6 billion music files are swapped annually.

But, according to a new research, commissioned by the Canadian Record Industry Association, the record industry’s well-worn argument that music downloading is a disadvantage for music sales may be misguided. However, downloading makes up for less then one-third of the music downloaders’ computers’.