No Levy on iPods in Canada

colinemckay writes "The fight over a levy on iPods and other digital music devices ended Thursday when the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear any further arguments on the matter. That means there will be no levy applied to digital audio recorders such as Apple's popular iPod and iPod Shuffle as well as other MP3 players like iRiver."

Re:A fair comparison of Java and Perl -- interesti

[mingot]

There is an insane clown who stands on a podium in the middle of the computer room to make sure that all the code is extremely poor in quality. The clown holds his cock all the time for no reason.

Oh, he has his reasons.

Who the hell is Levy?

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

And why would I want him on my iPod anyway?

Re:How about CD media?

[Curtman]

"How about DAT? minidisc? Those are digital recorders too, are there levies on those?""

Here [justice.gc.ca] is the law that enforces the levy. It just says "blank audio recording medium". I don't see how a CD is a blank audio recording medium any more than a hard drive is, but let's not tell them that. Before we know it we're paying the levy on RAM too. ;)

Re:NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR FUCKING IPOD

[FLAGGR]

It sounds better as "In Soviet Russia, fuck up shuts YOU", heh I'm kind of liking that. Thanks man.

Re:IRiver and XClef vs iPod

[jaycontonio]

Umm...get your own blog dude.

You misunderstand the purpose of the levy

[commodoresloat]

The tax is not about piracy; it is about good taste. If you can prove you have not used your blank media to record Alanis Morissette, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams or Geddy Lee, you can recoup the extra charges.

Re:Gee.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, yes, everyone who owns an mp3 PLAYER, must have bought them to STEAL MUSIC.

Can someone please STEAL the music of Celine Dion and Brian Adams already? Please?! I'm tired of hearing them in stores and around town.

Re:Pack of Rats

[gartogg]

The point is that the CRIA (the ACTUAL Canadian RIAA) has not managed to sucessfully even get the download of music to stop; Canadians can download all they want, and possibly even host music, according to one federal Canadian judge.

The CPCC is a completely seperate company; it's like saying that SCO is microsoft, just because we don't like them... well, bad example, but you know what I mean. It's like saying that stealing and piracy are the same thing. OK, another bad example on slashdot. OK, like the difference between free beer and free love. Wait, that's not a good example for slashdotters either. Maybe like saying that...
OK, so using slashdot logic, I guess they ARE the same. Nevermind.

Re:Pack of Rats

[jimicus]

Well, it seems quite obvious to me that this levy was produced on the assumption that most of the blank CDs sold would be used to pirate audio.

It therefore makes sense that there's a government department somewhere which has the authority to give you a refund if you've used a CD for something else. Why don't you give them a call and see if they can help you?