Same boss. Same office, too.

Cynical, but I am afraid this brushing up against a truth.

Sadly that blank CD tax actually went through years ago:

(Wikipedia) Canada’s current levies are as follows: $0.24 per unit for Audio Cassette tape (40min or longer); $0.21 per unit for CD-R Audio, CD-RW-Audio & MiniDisc; $0.21 per unit for CD-R, CD-RW (non audio)

They’re now trying to get it expanded to memory cards.

This levy is intended to reimburse recording artists who lose income due to home copying. Therefore, doesn’t this mean it’s now ethical (if not legal) to rip your friend’s Phil Collins collection?

The fact that you’re paying those goons when you make a CD-R of your own music is beyond obscene and well into evil territory.

In Canada it was at one point proposed by a politician to tax blank CDs and MP3 players

Which is what happened in France. A tax is levied on blank recording media to be forwarded to the SACEM, the company managing royalties. I wonder how much the artists really see from this tax.

That’s the point I was making. In Canada it was at one point proposed by a politician to tax blank CDs and MP3 players. The money was supposedly going to be distributed to artists. Well, that got shot down pretty quick when someone did the math and realized that most of the money would have gone to running the proposed office that would have dealt with the collection and distribution of this new tax…an office that would have been located in the riding of the politician who came up with the idea in the first place.

I really wonder where this relatively petty money will go, and what for, and how much of it will be eaten up by its own administration…