Canadians May Face 25% Download Tariff 615
C-Yo writes "While Canadians have battled against an iPod tariff for more than a
year, now comes news that Canada's copyright collectives are seeking a
tariff on iTunes as well. Professor
Michael Geist (who last
week dismantled music industry claims about peer-to-peer) reports
that one collective is demanding an incredible 25% of the gross revenue
of music download services as well as 15% of webcasters' gross revenue
and 10% of gamers gross revenue (free
version of report or Toronto
Star reg. version). When combined with other tariff
proposals, it would appear that Canada's collectives want to the kill
the download industry, demanding at least 40% of everything iTunes,
Napster, and other new services earn."
FP (Score:0, Funny)
And your little dog too! (Score:5, Funny)
And 7% of gross revenue from hamburger sales since it's been shown that copyright violaters eat them, and 11% of posters of 70s rockers in cheesy poses since their images retain valuable copyrightable money-making potential, and 3% of the sale of every wheelbarrel since they can be used to haul off copyrighted material, and 1% of every breath you take since that's part of a copyrighted song lyric...
Re:It isn't just downloads.... (Score:5, Funny)
I knew it was pretty easy and cheap to buy politicians, but now Canada is taxing them? How do I get into this racket?
Anonymous Coward (Score:5, Funny)
Eh? (Score:1, Funny)
Dammit, they're taxing the wrong ones... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What the hell is wrong with Canada? (Score:4, Funny)
Will Canadian musicians be affected.? (Score:2, Funny)
Will this produce a negative impact on any Canadian artists such as k.d. lang, barenaked ladies, Celine Dion, Avril Lavigne, etc., etc.?
Re:Oh Canada! (Score:3, Funny)
Er, they're Socialists ...?
Re:Will Canadian musicians be affected.? (Score:5, Funny)
Not so bad (Score:3, Funny)
25% Canadian is only 20% American, after all.
And that's before converting from metric to Imperial.
Re:That doesn't make any sense... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It isn't just downloads.... (Score:3, Funny)
What are you talking about? We leave the fucking of livestock to the individual farmers. As for the lumber, well, those trees are just too damn sexy.
Re:France has something similar... (Score:3, Funny)