http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/ Engadget Comments for MP3 player levy could be reinstated in Canada http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/Feb 12th 2007 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/While there are no recorders that don't also play...there ARE players that do not record...we call them 'radios' and they allow people to freely listen to an almost endless playlist and there are so many stations to choose from that everybody gets to listen to what the want. No, you probably can't listen to the 'Dixie Sluts' on a whim but if you stay on the station long enough..you will hear them. :-(]]>Feb 12th 2007 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/
Way to bring the level of discourse to a new high. ]]>Feb 12th 2007 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/Feb 12th 2007 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/Feb 12th 2007 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/
By bringing the levy to MP3 players, it would extend the same protections to MP3 players. Making sharing MP3's 100% legal in canada. Artists still get paid. It's not encouraging pirating, because someone gets paid. I'm all for a levy. The only caveat to the whole system is that the CPCC has veen very slow to actually dole out the cash the levy collects to artists. It should be streamlined so that the cash actually gets where it is supposed to go.

Cheers,
-ben]]>Feb 12th 2007 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/
sharing is caring.]]>Feb 12th 2007 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/]]>Feb 12th 2007 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/
You should do yout homework and see just how much of those levies actually made it to the people making the music. Disbursements from the CRIA levy fund were few and far between. While the process could change with this new levy collection, I think it naive to believe it won't encourage more piracy. Even as high as a $75 levy sounds, that's not a significant amount of money over a 5 - 10 year span of purchasing music. Artists will still get lower net proceeds, and more people will download music they feel entitled to, being that their wallets are now a fair bit lighter.

Levies are a way of ensuring the old model "works". If artists want their fair share, it's time to get on board with the new business model.]]>Feb 12th 2007 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/I'll tell you why this is a stupid idea and won't fly with the Canadian public.
No courts, no justices in their right mind should agree to grab extra fees from someone buying a media card for storing his personal photographs and then distribute part of what they paid to entertainment sluts like Paris Hilton.
Since media cards and iPods can be used to store just about anything in digital format, it's beyond my grasp how this scheme can be justified in matters of fairness--except of course to liberals, who believe in all kinds of government make-work welfare-projects.
Again, why should some pervert in Hollywood or rapper in the Bronx, profit, from me buying a storage medium for archiving family photos, recording wild birds or my bookkeeping records???
And since media cards/CD's etc. can't be manufactured to accept only certain digital files, it appears there is no point whatsoever to regulate the media in the first place.
Are people prepared to pay $75 on the new Blue-Ray/HD discs, especially when their price comes down to a few dollars in the near future.
The whole undertaking is a socialist redistribution scheme and should be scrapped as is.


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What kind of crap is this? They saddle a merchant with the task of collecting this tax, which of course costs the merchant in order to properly track it. That expense either comes out of the merchant's dwindling profits. Or it has to be passed on to the customer, costing them even more.

Then the real criminal part it when the tax is declared illegal, they burden the merchants with the refunds. If the merchant already passed the taxes collected to the tax authorities, then where is this refund money supposed to come from?

That is totally BS. The CPCC or the federal tax authority should have been burdened with the refund job. Not the poor merchants who had no choice in the matter.]]>Feb 12th 2007 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/Feb 12th 2007 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://cpcc.ca/english/contactUs.htm

CPCC welcomes questions and comments. Our office hours are 9:00 to 5:00 (EST) Monday through Friday.

150 Eglinton Avenue East
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Toronto, Ontario M4P 1E8
416-486-6832 or 1-800-892-7235
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inquiries@cpcc.ca]]>Feb 12th 2007 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/
It isn't illegal to download music

but associations and stuff tax the hell out of you in Canada in return]]>Feb 12th 2007 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/mp3-player-levy-could-be-reinstated-in-canada/Feb 13th 2007 12:46AM