March 17th, 2010 
Cliff Riseborough 
The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage (boy, I bet their parties are WILD) met today and passed a motion to expand the private copying levy to cover portable music players. In English, that means you will now see a levy tax thrown on top of the purchase price of MP3 players, because everyone knows you’re going to play a bunch of pirated music on them.
That the Committee recommends that the government amend Part VIII of the Copyright Act so that the definition of “audio recording medium” extends to devices with internal memory, so that the levy on copying music will apply to digital music recorders as well, thereby entitling music creators to some compensation for the copies made of their work.
So, even if you’re loading up your portable player with music that you’ve legitimately purchased, you’re still compensating music creators for not buying it for your computer AND your MP3 player. Brilliant.
Can anyone remind me why the music industry is in a tailspin?
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