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October 10, 2005

Music industry wants an iPod tax

The Japanese music industry can't sit idly by while people who've paid for CDs, or bought tracks from music stores put it legally on their iPods to listen to it. It wants to increase its profits by charging them twice. Or in the case of people who use their iPods to play only podcasts - and we're sure there are people who do just that - charging them for things they haven't provided.

So it asks the government to put a tax on iPods, on the basis that some people may be using them to play tracks for which they haven't paid. They would have made much more money, of course, if they hadn't blocked the local iTMS for so long, but then they would have had to provide something in return for the money, which is, you know, tedious, when you've got a government that's prepared to let them screw the public.

Posted by cw at October 10, 2005 11:19 PM

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Posted by: tflip at October 12, 2005 07:30 PM