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Canada to Tax MP3 Players $21/GB of Storage

Posted by timothy on from the irresistable-force dept.

einer writes : "A brief article on some new legislation scheduled to take effect at the beginning of next year. This tax would raise the price of an archos jukebox from roughly $350.00 to $640.00 (American). "Comments and objections are due by May 8, 2002." Looks like I'm headed to pricegrabber." Update: 03/13 19:36 GMT by M : We did a big story on this a few days ago (although people keep submitting it).

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  1. Re:This could backfire by madburn · · Score: 2, Informative
    ...remove all the anti-circumvention software which disallows use of the iPod for non-music storage.
    There is no such software on an iPod. It is simply a firewire hard drive with special firmware that lets it play audio from a specific folder when not jacked into a firewire cable. iTunes knows how to populate the special music folder, but there are no limitations on using the iPod as a mountable disk.