“The fight over a levy on iPods and other digital music devices ended Thursday when the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear any further arguments on the matter. That means there will be no levy applied to digital audio recorders such as Apple’s popular IPod and IPod Shuffle as well as other MP3 players… ‘Obviously we’re disappointed. We felt it was self-evident that those products are sold for the purpose of copying music,’ said David Basskin, of the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC), the non-profit agency which collects tariffs on behalf of musicians and record companies,” The Canadian Press reports.
“The group had wanted the high court to overturn last year’s Federal Court of Appeal decision which quashed the levy on the popular gadgets. The non-profit agency had been collecting the tariff – CAD$2 for non-removable memory capacity of up to one GB, $15 for one to 10 GBs, $25 for more than 10 GB – since December 2003 through a tax built into the price of the devices,” The Canadian Press reports.
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MacDailyNews Take: The CPCC felt it was self-evident that iPods are sold for the purpose of copying music or they wanted to grab extra cash? iPods are for playing legally-obtained music. iPods don’t steal music. People steal music.
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