*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.
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?
