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

[James Knott]

Tyler Aviss wrote:
> 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?
>

While I have made several music CD copies, I own the original on CD, 
cassette or vinyl, with very few exceptions.  Again for the MP3's I made 
to play on my Nokia N800.  This means I've paid at least twice for that 
music.

-- 
Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org>
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists