[Sussex] This is appalling... Dutch Pass iPod Tax

[Geoffrey J. Teale]

gteale at cmedresearch.com (Geoffrey J. Teale) writes:

> The best thing about this is the logic.  The record companies see any
> form of media onto which our "product" can be copied as a loss of
> revenue.  They believe this because they can prove it is _possible_ to
> do it on any instance of such media and they can prove that it has
> happened on more than one occasion.  By induction they demand that the
> purchase of such media have an additional levy to cover their costs
> because in every instance it is possible that the user is "stealing"
> from them.

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My word I typed that all too fast.  I'm afraid the RIAA make me
angrier than just about anything (except maybe OPEC.. but it's
essentially the same ball-game).   Apologies for the lack of
grammatical rigour.  :-)


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Geoff Teale
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