It seems there is no end to greed!
David Aikema
davidaikema
Mon May 17 11:41:48 PDT 2004
On December 19, 2002 09:18 pm, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> After seeng posts here re efforts by the film and entertainment industry
> pushing for various laws to be passed south of the border, I didn't
> realize that there were simalar moves being pushed here in Canada.
> Well I finally realize that Canadian polititions are far mor corrupt
> than anything possible south of the border. If you doubt that then
> read the following.
>
> http://www.kelownacapnews.com/archive/2002/12/18/stories/7519_full.html?lat
>est_date=2002/12/18
The levy has been around for at least a years already, it's simply expanding
in 2003. IIRC, the current levy on CD-Rs is in the neighborhood of $0.20 CDN
or so, and will be going up to $0.59 CDN. You may want to take a look at
http://www.ccfda.ca/ for a little more information.
I've already shipped letters off to my political representatives (maybe I
should try the local papers as well... I haven't noticed any coverage of this
in them).
I've never been the biggest buyer of music CDs, but I've decided not to
purchase those few that I might have, due to this levy increase. In any
case, I'll be stocking up on some CD-RWs (I've got lots of CD-Rs left) before
the year is up.
David Aikema
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