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Dutch Pass iPod Tax

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pay-to-play dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Register is reporting that in a few short months a proposal to tax all MP3 players in the Netherlands will become law. The levy taxes 3.28 euros ($4.30 US) for every gigabyte of capacity. This means a 60GB iPod Photo will be hit for an additional 196 euros ($258), all of it going to the record industry's copyright collection agencies. And they call file sharers thieves?"

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  1. Simple, sell an MP3 player with no storage at all by jonwil · · Score: 1, Redundant

    And sell "hard drives" that plug into it on the rack next door.
    Because the "hard drives" dont play music, there is no tax on them.
    And because the MP3 player has no inbuilt storage, there is a tax on 0.00mb of storage (i.e. none)