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The Copyright Board of Canada ruled in December that hard drive-based digital music players should be subject to fees aimed at compensating musicians, songwriters and record labels for copyright infringement.

it should read "compensating record labels and we'll throw a few tidbits to pacify musicians and songwriters."

BTW Aren't REAL musicians also songwriters? little redundant

No comp, what it meant was "throw the RIAA and equiv a bone to shut them up so the consumers can have a right or two too..."

but of course it is not gonna be good enough to appease the beast

They already did value added taxes on blank media and recorders quite some time ago and I betcha the "artists" didn't get none of the supposed "compensate the artist" money either.

It's a do-little bill that even IF an artist got paid for something, it would have to be a "legit" artist.

All bass ackwards and stupid.

independent artists (and even the indentured servants) be damned.

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if you were to go by the theory that downloading from itunes to an ipod you would think that they are already getting you for the music thats being put on the ipod . of course they are greedy bastards and want to rip people off for as much as they can so my advice dont pay for it in the first place

sorry about the wording im getting tired lol

this is tiring stuff burner, we have to beat them over the head with a brick and sometimes we smash their skulls oops but sometimes they wake up too

A lot of articles have been written about this issue. But I still have yet to read about how the proceeds from this tax on mp3 players will be distributed.

Bufo,
If the RIAA's extortion on blank tapes, CDs, & CD Burners in the US is any indication, all proceeds will stay with CRIA & record lables. Not a damn dime will find its way to the hands of the ACTUAL musicians.

Yes, JohnCarlton, that sounds disturbingly true - and I suppose your explanation would help explain why nobody is writing about proceeds distribution from this tax.

Whats next? taxes on music instruments and software?

Another tatic to milk more money out of the consumer.

how about a tax for every time I take a dump? Assholes!!

So the RIAA (CRIA-whatever) is knowingly selling (see: Sony) MP3 players knowing they will be used to play pirated music. So they wish to have the prices raised, essentially, so that they can profit from it?

At least normal kazaa users aren't profiting from their "piracy." If music piracy hurts the RIAA so badly, they'd sue companies like Sony. But they are Sony. They aren't just selling "mp3 players." They are selling "pirated music players," and they know they are doing this or else they wouldn't be trying to profit off of music downloading under the guise of "piracy compensation."

After all, there wouldn't be any need for "compensation" if Sony didn't make MP3 players. But they know damn good and well why they are selling the players - downloaded music. Big surprise, a two-faced riaa.

Good point, Sherminator. Too bad our illustrious legislators can't figure that out.

Or to be truly cynical, maybe they have figured it out and just don't care as long as their campaign payola keeps rolling in.