Re: [ARSCLIST] SACD fans -- some discounts

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Steve Abrams" <steve.abrams@xxxxxxxxx>
> I don't think there was such a tax in the US of A.  In Britain the lobbying 
> of the industry was rejected. However, there was a tax on blank tape in 
> Germany.  Presumably this still exists.
> 
> When CDR came out, the standalone format was more expensive because 
> royalties were supposed to be paid.  Then the companies, e.g. Philips et al, 
> admitted that they were not paying the royalties but simply pocketing the 
> cash. Of course Philips had prewviously been complaining about people making 
> illegal tape recordings and videos on philips recorders with philips tape, 
> knowing that these machines had hardly any use except copyright violation.
> 
Here in Canada, money was collected on ANYTHING that could be used to
copy copyrighted sound recordings. The money thus collected was supposed
to be paid to the musicians. I don't think this has been done so far...
but it did make it more-or-less legal to use the tax-paid items to
copy sound recordings...

Steven C. Barr