Comments on: No iPod tax for Canada

By: Betsy Markum

Betsy Markum — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:55:41 +0000

I can’t believe it, my co-worker just bought a car for $80535. Isn’t that crazy!

By: Betsy Markum

Betsy Markum — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:41:06 +0000

I can’t believe it, my co-worker just bought a car for $80535. Isn’t that crazy!

By: Courtney Gidts

Courtney Gidts — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:36:56 +0000

I’ve managed to save up roughly $75672 in my bank account, but I’m not sure if I should buy a house or not. Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?

By: David

David — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:20:53 +0000

Well I guess it does not go directly to the artist…I think the money goes to the bigger companies (like BMG and whatnot).

By: ZenBug

ZenBug — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:12:34 +0000

I continue to be perplexed by the supposition that, as you put it, “this levy goes to the recording industry to pay them to allow us to make personal copies of music from friends or whomever.”

I’m a semi-professional Canadian musician regularly receiving royalty cheques from SOCAN (Canada’s ASCAP) for my performances and airplay, but I have yet to see any of this supposed pay from the blank media tax, although I do have to pay into it everytime I buy a spool of CDs.

By: Shelton

Shelton — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:22:28 +0000

I like the idea and the method the Canadians are using for their digital music. One question … Just how much extra do you pay? Let say it’s about 20 bucks, do you know how fast I could burn through that on itunes?

I think they should do the same for PC’s. I have a $700 system with $30k in software on it that I didn’t pay a dime for. I would gladly have paid an extra $100 dollars or so to have all this software and not have to worry about how legal it is. Just a thought.

By: Shane Coffey (Cellounge Admin)

Shane Coffey (Cellounge Admin) — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:51:26 +0000

Thats great for you guys up north. It seems today that we are taxed to death as it is anyway. Consumer groups would have a field day with the recording industry trying to tax us here in the United States for mp3, or ipods.

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