Canada Proposes Tariff Tax on Recordable Media (i.e., CD-Rs)

“Canadians may soon be smuggling blank CDs across the border in an effort to avoid the high taxes that have been proposed for any recordable media that can be used to store music. The tax, called the Private Copying Tariff and backed by the Copyright Board of Canada, is intended to compensate musicians for income lost when consumers copy music onto digital storage media.” Click here to read the full story at Wired.com

This no doubt will put some scary ideas into U.S. trade association and/or lawmaker minds. (Did I just use the word “mind” and “lawmaker” in the same sentence?)