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Re: Collapse of the music industry? said by maxpower: What's next Mr McGuiness? Should companies that make CD-R's pay the music industry too? Actually, they already do.
IIRC, if you buy a stack of CD-Rs and the word "music" is anywhere on the packaging, the music industry (more specifically, the RIAA) gets a cut of the purchase price.
If, on the other hand, the CD-Rs you're buying only purport to be suitable for "data backups," (or whatever) the music industry doesn't see a dime.
The whole "media tax"-thing really started when the music industry (again, read RIAA) complained bitterly that Home Taping Is Killing The Music Industry. They lobbied (and got) a "recording tax" put on blank cassette tapes under the asssumption that each and every tape that people bought was, invariably, used to record an album and "steal" music.
Even, of course, if the person making said tape happened to own the album in the first place and merely wanted some way to play it in the car without having to buy yet another copy of something they already paid for. |
