Arstechnia: "iPod Tax" smacked down in Canada

solipsismsolipsism
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
I'm glad they realized the repercussions of this law before it was too late.
Canadians (and even their neighbors to the south) can breathe a sigh of relief as the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal quashed a proposed levy on digital music players late last week. The proposed levies weren't cheap: CAN$5 on each Memory Stick or SD card between 1GB and 4GB of memory, and "digital audio recorder" levies which top out at CAN$75 for players with 30GB+ of space.



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    strikstrik Posts: 6member
    So glad this was struck down! The whole thing was covered quite a bit here.



    Hopefully, this is the last we will see of this stupid levy.
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