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  1. Nope. by rakslice · · Score: 3 · on New Tax in Canada on Blank Recordable Media

    This levy only applies to blank recording media resold in Canada, and is remitted by resellers. This means that (a) the first reseller is usually a wholesaler/distributor (except when a retailer imports the media directly), (b) the levy is never collected by a customs agency, (c) you never have to remit the levy for media imported that will not be resold (while blank).

    The limitation to blank recording media is interesting: If I import CD-RWs, and then resell them already recorded with something, it would seem that I don't have to pay the levy. =)

    (See Neil Herber's FAQ on the levy for plenty more useful information.)

  2. Small price that I'm quite willing to pay... by ClassicG · · Score: 2 · on New Tax in Canada on Blank Recordable Media
    ..for the legal right to copy CDs, even those I -DON'T- actually own. IIRC, it is completely legal here in Canada to borrow someone else's music CDs and make a copy of them for one's own personal use, though only if the person actually making the copy is the final user. It isn't legal to make copies of your CDs for friends, they have to make the copies themselves.

    An aside - if I understand correctly, because of this, Napster is arguably legal here, at least to download from.

    A FAQ on the levy is available at http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml which includes this very interesting bit:
    Can I now legally copy audio CDs for my friends?

    The simple answer is NO, but you can legally copy your friend's audio CD for YOUR OWN use.
  3. Plus �a change, plus c'est la mem chose... by Soko · · Score: 5 · on High-Speed Greed

    IANAA, (I Am Not An American) but hail from thier neigbour to the North. Since much of what goes on below the 49th eventually happens up here, I'll comment anyway.

    Isn't it amazing. Here we are, 224 years after the American Revolution, and we're back to square one. If this follows through, the Citizens of the Good Ol' US of A will be paying sales tax to a coproration. Heh. Something like that hasn't happened since, ohhhhh... the British Crown decided to tax tea. Read the link, kids - that was to save a faltering coporation, namely the East India Company, too.

    So, we have taxes on audio capable blanks to make sure the RIAA and it's kin get thier fair share, absurd patents and copyrights whose sole purpose is to guarantee profits for already successful companies, and now this. Makes you sick, especially when this and this stare you in the face each night on the news

    Welcome to the Free World, fellow serfs, look what the American Free Market eventually brings you - The Copristocracy. It works just like an Aristocracy, but instead of being appointed by a King, the people in it founded a successful company, are paying off our "elected" officials to pass laws so they keep thier fabulous wealth, so they can pass it on to thier progeny - just like a Duke, Prince or Barron. So much for the Revolution, eh?