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This news sucks. The IHT is reporting that:
Japan’s music industry . . . has asked the Japanese government to charge a royalty, to be added to the retail price of portable digital music players like Apple’s iPod, which has been explosively popular here. Money earned from the fee, likely to be 2 percent to 5 percent of the retail price, would go to recording companies, songwriters and artists as compensation for lost revenue from home copying.
There are enough angry geek rants floating around the Internet about recording industry reps saying stupid things (all these people listening to music is bad for business!) so I’ll just end this post with my wish for a new 80GB iPod to come out soon so I can buy it before the idiot tax is levied. My 30-gigger is full and the battery life is too short for comfort.
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One Response to “The iPod tax to hit Japan?”
Posted by: Adam - 10/12/2005
Wow, this is about as dumb as the “let’s levy a music industry tax on blank CDs” idea. I just hope that if this goes through that the Japanese govt will require the Japanese music industry to track and disburse the funds to every single recording artist and song writer (or their heirs or estate, if they’re dead) around the world.
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