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

[Tyler Aviss]

What are the statistics though? I know a lot more people that buy
memory cards for digital cameras etc than for mp3 players. There are a
lot of other things that use those.

Even the CD tax is a bit silly. Sure, there are home users burning
bunch of discs, but I'd imagine that corporate purchases and other
non-music uses make up a larger portion.

Exactly what statistics - other than made up ones - have they used to
support the argument that these media should be taxed?

On 7/24/07, tleslie <tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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