Why do my backup disks fund the music industry?
Submitted by rernst on Mon, 02/27/2006 - 1:25pm
Apparently the blank media tax is coming back -- stupid music industry. Besides, I'm sure that if you look at it from a byte count, the majority of the disks used aren't going towards pirating music (who burns each pirated album to a CD, anyways???). But of course, maybe we're better off this way so we don't have taxes for the music industry, and the game industry, and the pillowcase-stuffing industry.
I guess we shouldn't forget the buggy-whip industry either....
[...] Isn’t it nice to
[...] Isn’t it nice to know that the Recording Industry cares about you? And that they’re willing to criminalize the entire technology industry to stop something that’s perfectly legal under Canadian law? And indeed, we in the tech industry subsidize the record industry anyways. It is a strange turn of events that the CanaDMCA wasn’t passed because the government was defeated. I don’t know whether to be relieved about that…. [...]
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