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Originally Posted by SpiderMatt
Surprise, surprise... the EU wants "levies applied to blank compact discs, cassettes, hard drives, printers and other equipment used to copy artists' works."
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Er, no, they already
do have such levies. What they are going to look at is whether those levies continue to be justified by new technologies.
Eg, at the moment, a levy is applies to CD-R Audio discs - the type used by HiFi CD recorders. They are about double the cost of normal CD-Rs for that reason.
You seem very cynical about this, Matt; may I ask why?