iPod Fee Proposed For Canada

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The Canadian Private Copying Collective is pushing for the implementation of an iPod fee in Canada to compensate them for 'losses' when people copy music to their digital music players. They have collected a fee from every CDR sold in Canada since 1997 and now want to extend that to digital music players. From the article: 'Some have argued that once they buy a CD they shouldn't have to pay again and again to listen to those songs — which they already purchased — on a personal compilation CD or on their MP3 player. But for people like Milman and Basskin, it's about recognizing the value of those works. "There has to be some sort of way to compensate the artist for the hours and the sweat and the blood and the tears and the extreme, extreme expense that goes into making music," Milman said

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/07/055207/iPod-Fee-Proposed-For-Canada

[HI-Saturn]

and what comes next every time you hear the song on the radio you should have to pay a tax for it also? Oh what Obama's new FCC diversity Czar wants to do that.