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

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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George Washington WAS a terrorist

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He & his army of insurgents attacked & killed British soldiers, who were representatives of the lawful sovereign nation of Great Britian and were charged with enforcing the laws put in place by the democratically elected Parliament.

It wasn't an act of terrorism. It was an act of rebellion. There's a difference.

Yeah, the difference is which side you're on. Didn't you hear that destruction of property to make a point, even if it was carefully done to avoid harming any person, is terrorism now? Don't believe me? A federal judge declared Stanislas Meyerhoff to have committed terrorist acts, and gave him 13 years. Under the current rules, George Washington & friends most certainly would have been declared to be terrorists.