Canada Quashes Copyright Tax on MP3 Players

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."

Comments

I'm a Canadian and I'm not concerned.

[SweetZombieJesus]

That levy on MP3 players, and CD-R and CD-RW, and DVD-R and DVD-RW was a scam anyways. That money never went to the artists, it went to the labels. Only the money off of actual album sales, radioplay royalties, and touring went to them.

Remember, Canada still has it's CAN-CON laws for the radio. 1/3 of all music played on the radio has to be from a Canadian artist. Even still, in some cases it's caused more harm that good. Making people sick of local talent.

I'm still a big fan. If you looked at my CD collection, it's all Canadian or UK. Maybe I'm just a patriot, but all the mp3s of canadian artists I have I own on CD as well (except for rare deleted stuff)

Re:Hooray!

[roman_mir]

Sure, the education is subsidized, but it would not matter, if you want education you get it no matter how much you have to shell out. Besides, the only reason for me personally to get this education in my profession had nothing to do with what they could teach me, but with the paper received after the school. So in a way I feel cheated out of my money by the society.

I don't go to the doctors here. I thought I already said that if I need to see a doctor I go to a chinese practitioner, who worked as a doctor back in China for 30 years but does not 'qualify' as a doctor here. So I trust the guy to tell me what's wrong and I pay him for the treatment and whatever medicine. For this I don't have to go anywhere. If he decides I need a prescription drug, it will be ordered for me from Russia or Ukraine.

You don't have a clue, when you are talking about 'subsidized drugs' for Canadians. The reason why the drugs are cheaper here than in the States is not because they are subsidized (for me at least, I have no medical insurance here,) but because drug firms realize that they can make a profit even if selling drugs cheaper in countries other than the States. Otherwise there would be no drugs here period. This is an economics principle called price descrimination

-so if it is an emergency, you will do it here? Do you expect to never get sick, or your wife, kids etc? - so what you are telling me in a 2-tier system I will not be able to get emergency medical care? Really? You are that dumb, is that why you post as AC?

And how are airports built outside of Canada? Does the government do it, or is it private enterprizes that do it? What is your point?

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You know, bud, my parents brought me to Canada, and I am leaving considering going away from here either to the States or to Germany soon enough, so I won't have to breath the same air as your socialist ass.

Since you are that ignorant, I'll enlighten you - today Israel and Ukraine employ more software coders than Canada. A-hole.