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No Levy on iPods in Canada

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the business-as-usual dept.

colinemckay writes "The fight over a levy on iPods and other digital music devices ended Thursday when the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear any further arguments on the matter. That means there will be no levy applied to digital audio recorders such as Apple's popular iPod and iPod Shuffle as well as other MP3 players like iRiver."

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  1. Re:A fair comparison of Java and Perl -- interesti by mingot · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is an insane clown who stands on a podium in the middle of the computer room to make sure that all the code is extremely poor in quality. The clown holds his cock all the time for no reason.

    Oh, he has his reasons.

  2. Who the hell is Levy? by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 3, Funny

    And why would I want him on my iPod anyway?

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    Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
  3. Re:How about CD media? by Curtman · · Score: 3, Funny

    "How about DAT? minidisc? Those are digital recorders too, are there levies on those?""

    Here is the law that enforces the levy. It just says "blank audio recording medium". I don't see how a CD is a blank audio recording medium any more than a hard drive is, but let's not tell them that. Before we know it we're paying the levy on RAM too. ;)

  4. Re:IRiver and XClef vs iPod by jaycontonio · · Score: 5, Funny

    Umm...get your own blog dude.