No "iPod tax" for Japan

It looks like the proposed 2-5% royalty tax that the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) wanted applied to digital music players has been shot down. A ruling on this issue had previously been postponed. Basically, the JASRAC was interested in offsetting losses that would be (supposedly) incurred when iPod owners used their players to store illegally acquired music. The proposal was finally rejected today, after one year of debate.

[Via Macenstein]