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Canada's Copyright Cops Give Go-Ahead For iPod Tax

Posted by Zonk on from the pay-for-your-piper dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist reports that the Canada's Copyright Board has given the go-ahead for a new copyright tax on iPods, despite an earlier court decision blocking the fee. The Board apparently ruled that not including iPods would make criminals of millions of Canadians and that the levy could conceivably be applied to cellphones and personal computers. 'If we're going to make P2P legal through a levy system, the system must (1) address both downloading and uploading; (2) consider addressing non-commercial use of content; (3) cover audio and video; and (4) more closely link the copying to those paying the levy. The government has yet to play its hand on this issue, but with the prospect of an unpopular levy and mounting pressure for a Canadian fair use provision, it will have to take a stand sometime soon.'"

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  1. Levy by gulfan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, if I'm paying a levy it means it's legal! Thank you Canada.

  2. Recreate the Boston Tea Party.... by dave-tx · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and throw them in the harbor! If you're not near water, feel free to send them to me and I'll do it for you.

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    >> "What would the robut do? Frame someone!"

  3. Re:Step 3: profit? by Attila+Dimedici · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, no you don't understand. After the government is done charging their oh so modest administrative fee, they will give the money to the RIAA or some related body, who will also take an administrative fee out of the money so raised. The 2 or 3 cents left will be divided equally between all the artists who were already registered when the levy went into effect. And since it isn't possible to pay in fractions of a penny, never mind.

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    The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
  4. Re:Tax me all you want! by rustalot42684 · · Score: 2, Funny

    GINORMOUS TAXATION That's funny, I didn't recall there being a tax specific to gin; I thought they were lumped together into 'spirits'.
  5. Can I just fling my iPod at the band instead? by gelfling · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because that's what it would come to. Y'all better duck because your motherfucking copywrited material is coming back at your head at about 60mph.

    1. Re:Can I just fling my iPod at the band instead? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      What parent meant was "96.56 kilometers per hour eh".

  6. Re:That's what Bin Laden said. by kalel666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tell that to the Fenway Flounder!

    Mr. Burns: "That intrepid lad is my great grandfather, Franklin Jefferson Burns. Tossing that tea, without a care for what the caffeine would do to the Fenway Flounder."

    Homer: "Is that a fish?"

    Mr. Burns: "It was."

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