Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Canada Quashes Copyright Tax on MP3 Players

Posted by michael on from the rated-q-for-quash dept.

Rippy the Gator writes "The Globe and Mail says that consumers may soon be paying less for MP3 players because the Federal Court of Appeal ruled that special copyright levies applied to digital music players are not legal. You might want to keep those receipts if you're giving them as a Christmas Gift."

1 of 437 comments (clear)

  1. The end of the canadian musid industry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Look...

    How will canadian artists and record companies stay in business if everybody is going to rip them off and the government isn't going to help them by encouraging consumers to pay taxes to help their brother canadians.

    You're all so selfish. I feel like moving south to the U.S.