Almost 80% of those Canadians surveyed recently by the Canadian Private Copying Collective said that they support a tax of up to 40 cents per blank CD-R to compensate musical artists hurt financially by people who use them to burn CDs.
The current tax of 21 cents is apparently not enough for music artists otherwise why else would this survey been commissioned?
The survey results were submitted to the Copyright Board of Canada in support of its plan to keep the current taxes in place until the end of 2007. But, what’s interesting to note here is that since music is going increasingly digital (who carries around CDs anymore?) that they also have plans in place to increase the tax on MP3 players as well. That’s right, a proposed tax for MP3 players.
According to their same survey data 75% of Canadians also support a tax of up to $40 bucks on a 30GB MP3 player. Now who was surveyed I’d like to know, because considering all the other myriad of taxes you pay, i.e sales tax etc., why the heck is an additional tax necessary? Surveys, you gotta love them.
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survey the size of my ass. cdrs will always be on sale i just bought 100 cdr for 14$ and 25 dvd+r for 7$
If paying a tax on shit would shut the music industry up stop the lawsuits and all the other bullshit I would say go for it. I have no problems with a fourty dollar tax on a 30GB mp3 player IF and only IF *ALL* of the bullshit ceases.
I WISH they would do this in the US but it may take awhile for the big entertainment industry execs here to get it through their heads that if they do not change they are going to die.
They also need to stop being so greedy and realize that at a flat tax would alleviate a lot of problems such as lawsuits which in turn causes people to hate the entertainment industry.
Oh well I believe it will happen even in the US eventually…WHEN is another story.
But heres the thing the criaa keeps bitching saying they should be able to sue canadians and are always trying to pass news laws to allow themselves the power to do that. The other problem with taxing cdr’s and giving the money solely to the music industry is it individualises the music industry even tho both movies videogames and applications are burnt with cdr’s. Why should the music industry be the only one making money from it. Basically in the end it just comes down to the music industry having friends in office which is just a really bad thing.
Why would anyone want to pay more tax on blank CD’s? Who’s the music industry to say that people are using CD’s to only back/burn music cd’s? What about the people who buy blanks to actually backup their data?
Thats why you need to buy CD-R That says DATA on it!! DONT BUY THE ONES THAT Say music!!!. They are higher price for a reason cause money goes to the RIAA.
40 cents per blank CD-R?Wtf? These fools that support this kind of rubbish make me ashamed of being Canadian.
Don’t listen to these idiots peoplewe are really not as stupid as these select few are making us appear!