The iPod Tax, the iTunes Tax and the Notepad Tax
The Conservative Party of Canada decided to turn a copyright controversy into an election issue. Last week it launched the ipodtax.ca website, slamming the opposition parties’ support of extending the private copying levy to devices such as iPods. The Tories’ claim is not factually accurate, as the Liberals currently oppose such expansion of the levy, and the main point of the campaign does not seem to be genuine concern about copyright. Rather, the issue is mainly an excuse/opportunity for promoting fear about general tax increases (“It’s just the beginning of the Coalition’s high tax agenda”), however, since I’m not a …
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