“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.
Full article here.
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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Canada rocks, that is all I can say.
You can copy music legally for private use onto CDs. We pay a tax for it, a tax that I am proud to pay.
Yup the RIAA is pretty well incapable of suing kids for downloading music.
No tax on the iPod, a strong statement that people can be responsible for legally downloading music.
Wave of the future dudes.
“AppleResellerCanada”, if you’re right, than I stand corrected. I have to admit that I shot off that reply/comment without reading the linked article, but all the same, the scenario I postulated is still one that I fear..
However, I do greatly appreciate your shedding some much needed light on the matter, and I thank you for easing some of my [possibly extreme/outlandish?] concerns.
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MDN daily word =”far”, as in, “So far, so good.”
The Canadian Government is planning to make unpaid (stolen) music downloads illegal this fall. Chances of them repealing the tax on digital media at the same time are slim and none and Slim just left town.
Typical for our government to steal more. Put on the levy then makes it illegal when it was put on to cover it . Doesn’t surprise me
whoops make it illegal and still keep the levy that was put on to cover it
When you’re in uncomfortable position and have no money to get out from that, you will need to take the business loans. Because that should help you for sure. I take financial loan every single year and feel great because of this.