Re: [Cdn-DMCA] CND proposes $21/gig levy on MP3 players

From: "Chris Palmer" <cpalmer _-at-_ accesscable.net>
To: "No DMCA in Canada" <canada-dmca-opponents (at) flora.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:18:07 -0400
References: <B8B25E12.4AAE%fred@eff.org>

I am  more interested in 59 cents per CD-R... at least I have 9 months to
stock up!

I suspect that one will receive a lot of flack from business users who use
CD-R's to back up.

With taxes like that on non-removable hard drives for MP3 players, I suspect
that next years mp3 players will be PDA's with removable hard drives.

Just so long as they don't start charging tax on regular harddrives...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred von Lohmann (EFF)" <fred@eff.org>
To: "No DMCA in Canada" <canada-dmca-opponents@flora.org>
Sent: March 11, 2002 5:13 PM
Subject: [Cdn-DMCA] CND proposes $21/gig levy on MP3 players


> I haven't seen this posted here yet. FYI.
>
> Fred
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> Fred von Lohmann
> Senior Intellectual Property Attorney
> Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)
> fred@eff.org  +1 (415) 436-9333 x123
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> > From: "Matt Goyer" <mgoyer@fairtunes.com>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:08:45 -0500
> > To: <pho@onehouse.com>
> > Subject: pho: CND proposes $21/gig levy on MP3 players
> >
> > Here's the PDF: http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs/proposed/c09032002-b.pdf
> >
> > And yes you read that right. $21CDN/gig 'in each non-removable hard
> > drive incorporated into each MP3 player or into each similar device with
> > an internal hard drive that is intended for use primarily to record and
> > play music'.
> >
> > So a $870CDN 40gig Archos MP3 player would have $840CDN worth of tariffs
> > levied upon it. Pure insanity!
> >
> > What's worse is that I hear that Canadian artists aren't even receiving
> > the tariffs collected on blank media (CD-R/CD-RWs).
> >
> > Matt
> >
>
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