On Wednesday 18 June 2008 16:21, David Brewerton wrote: 8<------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > I also mentioned the tax imposed by the Liberals that we all pay on all blank media, mp3 players, hard drives, USB drives, etc that is supposed to be paid out to the artists to compensate them for any copying done by Canadians. In short, we all pay with every piece of storage media whether or not it's used to copy music. No one in Canada could be charged now because we all pay a "license" fee attached to our media. The CDRWs I use to back up my data at work are paying for music as are the CDs and DVDs I use to back up the digital photos that I take. 8<------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Just an F.Y.I. The tax on CDs are on the 650Mb version not the 700Mb version. The 650Mb CD is the one used in the specifications (standards) for a Music CD. The 700Mb CD is actually classified as a data CD. This is probably why you don't see many 650Mb CDs available for sale, or if you do, compare them to the price of a 700Mb CD. Cheers! Neil B. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
