[Empeg-general] Sorry about our Canadian Friends...

[ClownBurner@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org]

The Canadian government has decided to give a huge pile of cash to the record companies for no justifiable reason, and take it out of the consumer's ^$$es.. Very depressing. And you Canadians thought only the US government was obviously in the pocket of the RIAA...

The scope of the tariffs is amazing: $1.23 EACH for all CD-RW's, $2.27 EACH on all DVD-R's, and best of all: $21 per gigabyte of storage on portable MP3 players. 

My favorite quote:
In reply to:The levy is payable on all media that qualify, without re-
gard to end use. No purpose is served by asking that the tariff
include a mechanism that would allow those who can prove
that they use qualifying media for purposes other than repro-
ducing musical works to be exempted from payment or to re-
ceive a refund.

Read the whole depressing story here..