Friday, December 17, 2004

Canada Says: MP3, for free.

Time was, in Canada, you had to pay a fee for every media bought on which you could save an MP3 -- iPods were an extra $25C, CDs had a tax. This was to collect money which -- supposedly -- goes back to the recording industry for losses due to illegal copying.

And they still do this.
But not for iPods anymore.
Turns out the legislative act giving the Copyright Board power to levy these fees specifies disks and casettes, but not hard drives or embeddable memory.

So, your Canadian iPods are now $25 cheaper.

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