[OT] Copyright Board of Canada gives thumbs-up to "iPod tax"

[tleslie]

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 11:03 -0400, Stephen wrote:
> Sy Ali <sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote: 
>         Since this kind of thing seems to be discussed with some
>         regularity on
>         this mailing list..
>         
>         It's particularly topical because of the recent RMS speech. We
>         didn't
>         have a Canadian example then. We do now..
>         
>         http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070720-copyright-board-of-canada-gives-thumbs-up-to-ipod-tax.html
>         --
> 
> This is a major piss off for me. I am a serious protographer and use 4
> gig memory cards. They want to tax them under this proposal.
>  
> I use dozens of DVDs and CDs to store and distribute my photographs.
> Making me pay a tax on media is wrong.

So is paying high insurance rates as a young teen driver in Ontario,
when you are actually a good driver, but you still pay (oh do you pay),
your paying because like insurance they don't give a rats ass that they
actually get the money from the people who actually tax the system,
its just all done on statistics.

-tl

>  
> When people believe that a law is wrong, they are likely to break it.
> Motivating people to break a law is never a good thing.
>  
> Stephen

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