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Canadians May Face 25% Download Tariff
C-Yo writes "While Canadians have battled against an iPod tariff for more than a
year, now comes news that Canada's copyright collectives are seeking a
tariff on iTunes as well. Professor
Michael Geist (who last
week dismantled music industry claims about peer-to-peer) reports
that one collective is demanding an incredible 25% of the gross revenue
of music download services as well as 15% of webcasters' gross revenue
and 10% of gamers gross revenue (free
version of report or Toronto
Star reg. version). When combined with other tariff
proposals, it would appear that Canada's collectives want to the kill
the download industry, demanding at least 40% of everything iTunes,
Napster, and other new services earn."
"This is Lars Ulrich of the rock band Metallica. Do you know why he's crying? He was planning on getting a solid gold shark tank bar for his pool. But now, since people have been downloading his music from the internet, he has to save up for a couple of months first. Is it still no big deal?" -- Cartman from Southpark
And 7% of gross revenue from hamburger sales since it's been shown that copyright violaters eat them, and 11% of posters of 70s rockers in cheesy poses since their images retain valuable copyrightable money-making potential, and 3% of the sale of every wheelbarrel since they can be used to haul off copyrighted material, and 1% of every breath you take since that's part of a copyrighted song lyric...
Canada will impose a 15 percent surtax on U.S. live swine...starting May 1, 2005
I knew it was pretty easy and cheap to buy politicians, but now Canada is taxing them? How do I get into this racket?
'Loose' is when your pants are three sizes too big. 'Lose' is when you misuse 'loose'.
But thats 25% Canadian so its less than 25% American.
as long as they can still upload for free, I'm not worried.
They should tax the illegal downloaders. Then again 25% of 0 is... um... uh... get back to me.
Are they gonna start driving across the border for cds then? Maybe we can get an exchange going!
Zoeith
Will this produce a negative impact on any Canadian artists such as k.d. lang, barenaked ladies, Celine Dion, Avril Lavigne, etc., etc.?
Er, they're Socialists ...?
You could've hired me.
You have to put it in its proper perspective.
25% Canadian is only 20% American, after all.
And that's before converting from metric to Imperial.
Somebody somewhere HAD to have bought a CD legit, and then shared it. This tax, just eliminates the need to track that person down.
What are you talking about? We leave the fucking of livestock to the individual farmers. As for the lumber, well, those trees are just too damn sexy.
What about paper? You can write their lyrics down on the paper! Or the liner notes! Someone should tax paper! ;) j/k
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