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Originally Posted by Locke
Really? Wow, thats interesting. I imagine the record companies arent fans of that at all.
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Interesting you bring this up. For years the Canadian Recording Industry Association pushed for the levy, and it has raised hundreds of millions of dollars.
But this week the CRIA just filed a lawsuit to prevent an extension of the levy to personal media players.
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CRIA, which spent more than 15 years lobbying for the creation of the private copying levy, is now fighting to eliminate the application of the levy on the Apple iPod since it believes that the Copyright Board of Canada's recent decision to allow a proposed tariff on iPods to proceed "broadens the scope of the private copying exception to avoid making illegal file sharers liable for infringement."
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2238/125/
EDIT: BTW, here is a link showing how much money has been raised by the blank media levy. http://cpcc.ca/english/finHighlights.htm
According to the CRIA, this money was to cover their loses for you to copy your CDs onto you own blank CDs. Yeah, I'm pleased the recording companies think they deserve $200,000,000 for allowing me to copy my own CDs.
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Last edited by Bobblehead; 09-17-2007 at 06:06 PM.
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