This is not the first time the Japanese recording industry has tried to get this "iPod Tax" passed. In 2005 the proposal was almost imposed but a government committee failed to reach consensus on the issue and it fell apart.
Eh, 100 yen isnt anything.
The power to tax is the power to destroy. Since when was the Entertainment Industry a branch of all international governments? Their own "police", their own law, their own tax. WAKE UP PEOPLE!
Socialist governments have NEVER seen a tax it did'nt like.
And the media industry dictate to another government.
expect it in europe sometime soon as the media industry still believe that you don't actually own media you purchase, i'm not looking forward to licencing over physicial sales seems sony is one of the key members and their anti-consumer approach to licencing is you cannot, re-sell, lend or even give away their media!
iPod tax: UK music biz open to format shifting... for a fee
Originally posted by link:but sony do think copying cd's is theft.
Early this year, the BPI again said all the right things about format shifting, but we noted that the Association of Independent Music was making noises; apparently, the group wanted to get paid whenever music was transferred from a CD to a portable device.
Originally posted by link:
"When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song." Making "a copy" of a purchased song is just "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy'," she said.
$0.95 tax on a $250 iPod is nothing. .38% of the purchase. I can live with that. As long as they don't come back in a year crying poor and saying that they need more. If some pennies shut them up, so be it.
Originally posted by 21Q:
Eh, 100 yen isnt anything.
Quote:Yeah, and we didn't have paved roads or bridges.Originally posted by 21Q:
Eh, 100 yen isnt anything.
in the beginning the income tax wasn't anything either.
Quote:Quote:Yeah, and we didn't have paved roads or bridges.Originally posted by 21Q:
Eh, 100 yen isnt anything.
in the beginning the income tax wasn't anything either.
Quote:And almost the rest lines the pockets of those who talk a big game, but never do anything. If I was in Japan, I'd support the tax, but only if it went to the artists alone. I'm not aware of how much the agents/execs of the record companies get as opposed to their artists do, but if it's like it is there as it is in America, then forget it! :DQuote:Quote:Yeah, and we didn't have paved roads or bridges.Originally posted by 21Q:
Eh, 100 yen isnt anything.
in the beginning the income tax wasn't anything either.
yes those are good things - I suppose that overall we are fortunate that only 40% of our tax money goes to waste fraud and mismanagement - and stupid wars.
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And almost the rest lines the pockets of those who talk a big game, but never do anything. If I was in Japan, I'd support the tax, but only if it went to the artists alone. I'm not aware of how much the agents/execs of the record companies get as opposed to their artists do, but if it's like it is there as it is in America, then forget it! :D