Source:
The Register
Almost the same as putting a tax on your computer because it contains a small harddrive and can play music on it.
This makes me sick. Reminds me of that movie with Tom Cruise, Minority Report where they go around and charge people with a crime they have yet to commit but could possibly do so in the future. Just goes to show how greedy these people actually are.
Well if they are taxing you for stealing music before you even do it, should that not give you the right to go ahead and do it? You've already payed them compensation...
with this law, they could tax people on memory cards, flash drives, hard drives and anything to that sort, calling "blank media" recording industry bastards...
Its a joke really, but its not the time that idea has been thrown around and it wont be the last, couple of years ago they tried to force the issue of cd media manufacturers to pay a levy to the big corps because they said the blank disks sold amounted to loss of earnings, meaning every blank cd sold was ending up a music cd..If they had brains they would be even more dangerous. What happened to the democratic society we used to have, would that be the same democracy that Bush n Blair have created in Iraq..Fight Back its not to late. People power will prevail.