Thursday, 9 Jan

CD-R Tax:

I can see this being a problem. I don’t mind paying a tax to be legally allowed to ‘copy music for personal use’, it beats the hell out of paying $15-20 for an album. Only thing is, less than 5% of what I burn is music/audio.

At $0.21 per CD, that adds $21 on top of base price of a 100-CD spindle - nearly doubling the total cost. Serious overkill for anyone who’s archiving data only. Now they’re talking about raising the levy to $0.59 and slapping it onto more than just CD-Rs:

“the Canadian Private Copying Collective, the music industry group that collects the levy, has proposed new levies to be applied to any device that can store music, such as removable hard drives, recordable DVDs, Compact Flash memory cards and — of course — MP3 players.”

Whoa whoa whoa, let’s slow down there! Taxing sales of removable drives and flash memory?? I think someone’s getting a ‘little’ greedy. Especially considering that:

“the CPCC has not yet distributed a cent of the millions it has collected in fees over the years to musicians.”

This could ruin someone’s day.

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Bring lots of CDs when you come to Canada. I stocked up before the levy was placed on CDs and I’m still working through them. Hopefully someone comes to their senses and doesn’t slap on such a high levy.

eric | January 9, 2003 06:58 AM
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Thanks for confirming that Eric. I think I’ll be placing a serious order at newegg and box it all up with the all my stuff I’ll be shipping to Canada.

ryan | January 9, 2003 10:19 AM
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CD tax? That us one of the worste thing that could happen for computers.

Now I know how smokers feel about smokers tax but at least CD’s are not bad for your health.

Mike | January 10, 2003 09:18 PM
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