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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 1013725" data-attributes="member: 2013">It's worth pointing out that such a "tax" on blank CDs, videotapes, and cassette tapes exists in the US as well.The big-time content companies are trying to have it both ways... "you must pay us for the ability to copy our stuff" ("use tax" on blank media) and "you can't copy our stuff" (Digital Rights Management, DMCA, draconian copyright laws) at the same time.Which really annoys me, as it means that they're double-dipping... in fact, I recall one US Congressman asking the *AA something to the effect of, "wait a minute, you want us to make a law saying that DRM must be built into computers so people CAN'T copy your stuff... and you're already charging them to pay for the 'ability to copy' on the blank media that they buy? So you are, in effect, asking us to support legislation to force people to pay for an ability that won't exist?"An analogy fails me... it's like, I guess, a host at a party/bar/club charging everyone a $5 "soft drink cover charge" at the door... and then making no drinks of any kind available to anyone.No answer yet from the *AA.The *AA is basically a buggy-whip maker that has shown it does not want to adapt to the digital age of instant content delivery sans middleman (since the *AA is the middleman).  I believe they will be gone in 15 years, but that they'll raise holy hell on their way out and make life exceedingly miserable for the rest of us.--The Sigil</blockquote>

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