If you are buying music CDs 25% cheaper than what the RIAA has determined to be the correct price for your country, you are obviously a pirate. At least one quarter of every CD you own is illegal. With the current strength of the Euro against the dollar it could be as much as one third of every CD.
A RIAA audit compliance team will be dispatched to your home to calculate the damages you owe and to cut out the pirated portions of your CDs. You will be notified of the damages you owe us in our press release entitled âoeSurvey shows one third of all CDs in Europe piratedâ
I don't know which was faster, the information about the iTunes store on the CDBaby site being pulled or the obligatory post about how slow it is to copy files on an 8600/300.
Mr. Burns: Okay, let's make this sporting, Leonard. If you can tell me why I shouldn't fire you without using the letter "E", you can keep your job.
Lenny: Ah... okay...um... I'm a good work... guy...
Mr. Burns: You're fired.
Lenny: But I didn't say--!
Mr. Burn: You will... (OPENS TRAP DOOR)
Lenny: Eieeeee-e-e-e-e-e-eee!
The key point is that these retailers have voluntarilly agreed to collect sales tax. Currently, the states cannot force an out of state retailer to collect their sales tax.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1992 that mail order companies cannot be forced to collect sales tax in all 7,500+ taxing jurisdictions in the US unless they have a "business presence" in that jurisdiction. For example, if you have a warehouse in Ohio and a telemarketing center in California, you would have to collect sales tax in those two states, but nowhere else.
The case that established this was Quill v. North Dakota, 504 U.S. 298.
You can read more about it here: http://www.nbmda.org/what/govrel/pdf/LA_200 0_03.PD F
In other words, the retailers that agreed to this are wimps who are giving your money to the looters to avoid an expensive legal fight.
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If you are buying music CDs 25% cheaper than what the RIAA has determined to be the correct price for your country, you are obviously a pirate. At least one quarter of every CD you own is illegal. With the current strength of the Euro against the dollar it could be as much as one third of every CD. A RIAA audit compliance team will be dispatched to your home to calculate the damages you owe and to cut out the pirated portions of your CDs. You will be notified of the damages you owe us in our press release entitled âoeSurvey shows one third of all CDs in Europe piratedâ
I don't know which was faster, the information about the iTunes store on the CDBaby site being pulled or the obligatory post about how slow it is to copy files on an 8600/300.
Although I do admit, the Food Chanel is pretty fun. Of course, my GF and I end up trying a lot of the tings we see on the shows there.
Man, you've got a girlfriend willing to try out the things you see on TV and you're watching the Food Channel?
You might want to check out some other channels.
Mr. Burns: Okay, let's make this sporting, Leonard. If you can tell me why I shouldn't fire you without using the letter "E", you can keep your job. Lenny: Ah... okay...um... I'm a good work... guy... Mr. Burns: You're fired. Lenny: But I didn't say--! Mr. Burn: You will... (OPENS TRAP DOOR) Lenny: Eieeeee-e-e-e-e-e-eee!
The key point is that these retailers have voluntarilly agreed to collect sales tax. Currently, the states cannot force an out of state retailer to collect their sales tax.
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The Supreme Court ruled in 1992 that mail order companies cannot be forced to collect sales tax in all 7,500+ taxing jurisdictions in the US unless they have a "business presence" in that jurisdiction. For example, if you have a warehouse in Ohio and a telemarketing center in California, you would have to collect sales tax in those two states, but nowhere else.
The case that established this was Quill v. North Dakota, 504 U.S. 298.
You can read more about it here:
http://www.nbmda.org/what/govrel/pdf/LA_20
In other words, the retailers that agreed to this are wimps who are giving your money to the looters to avoid an expensive legal fight.