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Dec 17 2004

Canadian iPod ‘tax’ not legal

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Mp3 players may soon cost less in Canada following a Federal Court of Appeal ruling that copyright levies on digital music players aren’t legal.

Exactly a year ago, the Copyright Board of Canada froze private copying levies on recording devices and at the same time, hiked non-removable memory (such as in Apple’s iPod) by $2 per device for up to one gig of memory, $15 for 1-10 and $25 over 10.


Read the Complete Story @ P2Pnet News

http://p2pnet.net/story/3319

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