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Originally Posted by HarryT
Or charge a levy on blank recording media which gets passed on to the music industry. I don't know if it's the same in the US, but in the UK, CDR-Audio discs (the type used by HiFi CD recorders) are much more expensive than normal CD-R data discs because they have a special tax imposed on them which gets passed back to the recording industry, on the grounds that the only use for these CDs is to copy music.
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Yup... more assumptions. On one hand, assuming people only copy music... on the other, assuming that it is all pirated music, and not simply albums already in their possession.
No wonder people are discovering more and more independents... where they don't automatically feel like they're being treated as criminals...