This is the same recording industry that strong armed the Canadian government into putting a tax on blank CDs on the basis that they are being used for piracy.
“At 29 cents per disc, the tax on a 50 spindle package of CD-R or CD-RW discs is now $13.50 and constitutes a major percentage of the cost of CDs.”
“The levy on CD’s originally began in 1998 and the levy per recordable CD was initially set at 5.2 cents. At the time CD-R discs were often several dollars per disc so the levy represented only a small percentage of the products overall cost.”
And their math is wrong—at 29 cents per disc, the tax on a 50-disc spindle is $14.50, not $13.50
Doesn’t that just sound like you’re being ripped off?
A lot of people, mainly geeks, use CDs for data and software storage, especially Linux geeks who tend to have many versions of many distros on CD. A good geek may have hundreds of CDs, not one with music on it. Yet he paid how much to the copyright cartel?