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Canadian Music Industry Seeks Copy Tax On Memory Cards
An anonymous reader writes "The Canadian music industry's copyright collective is demanding
the creation of a new copying tax on all memory cards sold in
Canada. The Canadian Private Copying Collective has filed for a tax of
up to $3 per memory card to compensate for music copying on SD
cards. If approved, the tax could cost consumers millions of
dollars." Makes no less sense than the current levy exacted on blank CDs and audiotapes in Canada — and no more sense, either.
i am really not a racist or a bigot. in fact i think humor can help fix shit like that. i just really really think the term "spear chucker" is hilarious. i can imagine one on a primitive tribal african savannah hunting a wildebeest or something.
didja know it was a black man named Anthony Johnson who first introduced permanent black slavery to the usa? how come Black History Month doesn't cover that one? oh yeah and the white man didnt have to take slaves from africa by force either. other black africans captured them in raiding expeditions and sold the captive blacks to the white slave traders. Black History Month missed that one too strangely enough. but we're supposed to feel "white guilt" over slavery. yeah sure. fuck, we already paid slavery reparations it's called welfare.
so yeah anyway the cool thing about humor is you dont have to cover up the truth just to handle the truth.