According to today's article the Copyright Board of Canada has approved a new fee to be placed on "legally" downloaded music. So, when you buy a song from the iTunes Music Store, Puretracks, etc. 3 cents goes to the recording industry to compensate artists for people downloading music and not paying for it. (I hesitate to call it "illegal" downloading because it's not strictly illegal in Canada.)
How do you like that, gang? You're being taxed to pay for people doing something "illegal" that's not actually illegal. So if you're like me and want to stick it to the record companies, it's a little harder now. So now I can't buy a song by an independent artist from the iTunes Music Store.
Here's the best part. It's retroactive to 1996.
1 comment:
I'm with you on this one. Its nuts. Penalizing the people who are doing the right thing and paying for their music doesn't make sense.
The natural analog to the CDR levy would be to have a levy on MP3 players. I think this has been talked about.
Bubba
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