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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Thorn on August 20, 2003, 01:34:41 pm
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I just saw this one on Warpstorm...
http://techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-081803C
Canada: 1
RIAA: 0
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Sweet. The taxations of blank media really is an inovative solution. Its small for each individual CD, but it adds up. Good to see Canada not giving in to RIAA rulings
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HA HA HA HA! Go you Canadians!
an0n wrote:
The RIAA can go fuck themselves
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Good idea, I certainly wouldn't mind paying a small tax on blank media if it slapped the 'Agent Smith's' of the Media companies in the face ;)
Flipside :D
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*applauds his northern neighbors*
Now, if only some of that common sense would spill southways...
From the article:
A small levy on storage media, say a penny a megabyte...
...except a penny a meg means that the tax on a single 80-minute CD-R would be $7....so for a stack of 100 the final cost would be around $750. :eek: :wtf:
Now if it were, say, $0.01 per 10 megs, that'd be a bit more sensible, since then you won't be committing highway robbery in selling some blank CDs that may not even be used for music burning at all (and makes a 7-cent discrepancy in tax something hardly worth considering)...
But, back to reality: does anyone honestly think the RIAA would sit idly by if such legislation shows even the slightest promise of getting passed? :rolleyes:
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You know, I totally forgot about that tax altogether. Its very transparent and prices for DVDs, and CD's are still extremely reasonable.
There's a reason why people like our slightly different take on reality :)
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Bah, there's something around 190 other countries in the world where the RIAA has no power whatsoever and no one cares about file sharing, so that's not really a big deal.
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The thing about this is that the RIAA does have power here IIRC....
There's just nothing they can do to us :p
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Originally posted by Styxx
Bah, there's something around 190 other countries in the world where the RIAA has no power whatsoever and no one cares about file sharing, so that's not really a big deal.
:D
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hmm, that's a realy good idea, wholsale selling of music the media guys can just keep trak of who's music is getting DLed the most to determine who gets the 1/1000000000th of a percent of that peny per disc and I don't have to worry about RIAA suits storming my home