Canadians [Will] Pay Levy on MP3 Players - Updated

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday December 11, 2003 @12:57PM from the strange-new-sin-taxes dept.

Capt. Canuck writes "According to this Toronto Star story, the Canadian Copyright Board may approve a 20% levy on electronic media tomorrow, including MP3 players and hard drives. With the Canadian Dollar rising and this on the horizon, maybe now is the right time to get that iPod." Update: 12/12 16:33 GMT by M : rcpitt writes "The Canadian Copyright Board has (finally - a year late) issued its ruling on the latest round of blank media levy - the controversial (in the rest of the world as well as Canada) private "tax" on recordable media used to copy music which proceeds go to the music artists in Canada. The ruling by the board and a press release were posted to the Board's web site at 10AM Ottawa (CST) today. The ruling continues the levy amounts from the previous 2 year period (2001-2002) to the end of this period (2003-2004) at the same amounts as previously set but adds new levies on portable (MP3) digital audio recorders of from CDN$2/unit to CDN$25/unit depending on internal storage capacity."

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Re:Not can copy, but can't block copies by swb · 2003-12-11 16:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I hate Sheraton, too, and all the other lame ass Starwood hotels that fall under the same umbrella. But someone in the parent company got a new car or something for making us all stay in them. The W Court bites (although the bedding was real nice), and the Royalton does too. Weird furniture and really bad food.

This hotel has normal food and doesn't think that turning out all the hallway lights makes you trendy, but the rooms are kinda small and the TV sucks.

I prefer the NY Palace....